Mountaineering, Masculinity, and the Male Body in Mid-Victorian Britain.
Osiris
; 30: 158-81, 2015.
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ABSTRACT
Golden-age mountaineers attempted to codify gender, like flora and fauna, by altitude. They zoned the high Alps masculine. As women also reached into the highest regions, male alpinists increasingly turned to their bodies, and the bodies of their guides, to give scientific validity to their all-male preserve. Edward Whymper traveled to the Andes in 1879, where he transformed Chimborazo into a laboratory and his own body and those of his guides into scientific objects. His work helped spearhead a field-based, vertical approach to human physiology that proliferated after the turn of the century. By viewing gender through a spatial lens and using the sides of mountains to map it, this essay highlights the gendered notions that directed early research in high-altitude physiology.
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01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Imagen Corporal
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Altitud
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Masculinidad
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Hombres
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Montañismo
Límite:
Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
America do sul
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Europa
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En
Revista:
Osiris
Año:
2015
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Article