In, Out, and Beyond: Dislocation, Contamination and the Redemptive Power of Womanhood in California, In-doors and Out by Eliza W. Farnham, 1856
Eliza W. Farnham (1815-1864) was the first woman migrant to publish a book on California. Her 1856 account offers a unique insight into the early and essentially male phase of California’s settlement, as well as a complex narrative of personal adaptation to a new environment. Its vivid and at times...
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| description | Eliza W. Farnham (1815-1864) was the first woman migrant to publish a book on California. Her 1856 account offers a unique insight into the early and essentially male phase of California’s settlement, as well as a complex narrative of personal adaptation to a new environment. Its vivid and at times humorous descriptions of agrarian life, embryonic political institutions, social relations and violence, are permeated with the spirit of Manifest Destiny. Yet, the deep originality of Eliza Farnham’s account lies in its gendered perspective, which combines traditional and radical views of the female sex and disrupts dialectics of public and private spheres. This partly autobiographical book blurs the frontiers between the “in” and the “out” and contains the seeds of the gynecocracy theories that the author subsequently expounded in a voluminous work aiming to demonstrate the absolute superiority of the female sex (Woman and her Era, 1864). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-543c8d84adab4e6796e26b13f2c9e4642025-01-30T10:45:30ZengAssociation Française d'Etudes AméricainesTransatlantica1765-27662019-09-01110.4000/transatlantica.12474In, Out, and Beyond: Dislocation, Contamination and the Redemptive Power of Womanhood in California, In-doors and Out by Eliza W. Farnham, 1856Claire SorinEliza W. Farnham (1815-1864) was the first woman migrant to publish a book on California. Her 1856 account offers a unique insight into the early and essentially male phase of California’s settlement, as well as a complex narrative of personal adaptation to a new environment. Its vivid and at times humorous descriptions of agrarian life, embryonic political institutions, social relations and violence, are permeated with the spirit of Manifest Destiny. Yet, the deep originality of Eliza Farnham’s account lies in its gendered perspective, which combines traditional and radical views of the female sex and disrupts dialectics of public and private spheres. This partly autobiographical book blurs the frontiers between the “in” and the “out” and contains the seeds of the gynecocracy theories that the author subsequently expounded in a voluminous work aiming to demonstrate the absolute superiority of the female sex (Woman and her Era, 1864).https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/12474spacenationgenderhybridityCaliforniapublic and private spheres |
| spellingShingle | Claire Sorin In, Out, and Beyond: Dislocation, Contamination and the Redemptive Power of Womanhood in California, In-doors and Out by Eliza W. Farnham, 1856 Transatlantica space nation gender hybridity California public and private spheres |
| title | In, Out, and Beyond: Dislocation, Contamination and the Redemptive Power of Womanhood in California, In-doors and Out by Eliza W. Farnham, 1856 |
| title_full | In, Out, and Beyond: Dislocation, Contamination and the Redemptive Power of Womanhood in California, In-doors and Out by Eliza W. Farnham, 1856 |
| title_fullStr | In, Out, and Beyond: Dislocation, Contamination and the Redemptive Power of Womanhood in California, In-doors and Out by Eliza W. Farnham, 1856 |
| title_full_unstemmed | In, Out, and Beyond: Dislocation, Contamination and the Redemptive Power of Womanhood in California, In-doors and Out by Eliza W. Farnham, 1856 |
| title_short | In, Out, and Beyond: Dislocation, Contamination and the Redemptive Power of Womanhood in California, In-doors and Out by Eliza W. Farnham, 1856 |
| title_sort | in out and beyond dislocation contamination and the redemptive power of womanhood in california in doors and out by eliza w farnham 1856 |
| topic | space nation gender hybridity California public and private spheres |
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