Article: Gender notes: Wilderness unfinished

Men and women tell their stories in fundamentally different ways. The structure of women's narrative has been subverted, as the content has been suppressed, through the course of cultural evolution from classical to contemporary expression of human experience. Nowhere is this more evident than in writings of wilderness travel, but as male designs give way to female imperatives, not only are the forms of narrative changing. But the very notion of wilderness itself is being refigured. Histrionic tales of conquest and endurance are being displaced by accounts of making connections with the natural world. A close reading of books by Victoria Jason and Don Starkell about overlapping Arctic ...

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