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The spectacular traveling woman: Australian and Canadian visions of Women, Modernity, and Mobility between the Wars
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Date Issued
2017-01-01
Date Available
2019-08-20T10:37:33Z
Abstract
This article applies recent scholarship concerned with transatlantic mobility and print cultures to a comparative study of images of transpacific travel for women during the interwar period. During the 1920s and 1930s female travelers splashed spectacularly across the pages of mainstream, popular magazines produced in America, Britain, and the wider Anglophone world. Focusing on two magazines that launched in this era, Th e Australian Woman's Mirror (1924- 1961) and Chatelaine (1928-), this article explores Australian and Canadian fictional portrayals of the traveling woman of the interwar years to examine the ways in which the mobility of the modern girl became a screen for anxieties and fantasies of these two national print imaginaries. By paying attention to the different portrayals of female mobility through the Pacific from both sides of the ocean, this article also considers the intersection between actual travel, ideas about travel, and notions of gendered social mobility.
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Journal
Transfers - Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
Volume
7
Issue
1
Start Page
70
End Page
87
Copyright (Published Version)
2017 Berghahn Books
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
ISSN
2045-4813
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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