Review of Female authority: Empowering women through psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-604
Author(s):  
Joan T. Robison
Keyword(s):  
Female Authority

scholarly journals Women’s travel writing in the cyber-world – ecofeminist and difference feminist approaches in travel blogs

Feminismo/s ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Mirja Riggert
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Gendered Spaces ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Mother Nature ◽  
Female Authority ◽  
Travel Discourse ◽  
Women's Travel

This paper intends to track the development of traditional feminist ideas through the analysis of three contemporary travel blogs. These traditional feminist concepts are to be seen in the construction of a collective female identity that enables transnational and transgenerational solidarity: by receiving and transmitting inspiration, shelter and encouragement among female travellers, the narrators in the blogs create a system of female authority. Within this system, female role models as well as maternal figures become points of reference that help to revalue female attributes. This concept shows allusions to the theory of difference feminism as it is presented in the «symbolic order of the mother» by Luisa Muraro. A similar approach of revaluating femininity happens through the orientation towards ‘Mother Nature’. By staging women’s ability to give birth, cultural ecofeminists like Susan Griffin intend to affirm a close bond between women and nature. This representation of an emphasised femininity becomes a central marker in the narratives of the blogs. While this agenda might be designed to counter gendered spaces and the traditional alienation of women within travel discourse, it is problematised by exclusionary and essentialist definitions of femininity that harden engendered binaries like masculinity/femininity or nature/culture.

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