Name: False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction (en Inglés)
Price: 41080.00 CLP
Availability: InStock
Author: Julie Rak
ISBN: 9780228006275

portada False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Julie Rak

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780228006275

Categorías

Historia y crítica literaria
Estudios de genero de las mujeres

False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction (en Inglés)

Julie Rak (Autor) · · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo

$ 41.080

$ 68.470

Ahorras: $ 27.390

40% descuento

Envío normal

Origen: Reino Unido (Costos de importación incluídos en el precio)

Se enviará desde nuestra bodega entre el Viernes 12 de Julio y el Martes 23 de Julio.

Lo recibirás en cualquier lugar de Chile entre 1 y 3 días hábiles luego del envío.

Reseña del libro "False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction (en Inglés)"

The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself reached a "false summit" – a peak that proves not to be the pinnacle – and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has helped shape how the self is understood within the context of conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all. Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics.