Black Lambs and Grey Falcons: Women Travellers in the BalkansJohn B. Allcock, Antonia Young During the nineteenth century the Balkan countries b ecame the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public at large. This has had important consequences for the way in which the region has been viewed since then, and the creation of this image has had an impact on the many aspects of West European and North American responses to the Balkans, ranging from diplomatic and military involvement to the burgeoning flow of tourists. This vision of the area has been created in large measure by the writing of women travellers such as those represented in this volume. The achievements of these women are quite remarkable: in many cases their travels were adventurous, and even dangerous, reaching into parts of the countryside which were remote and hardly known to outsiders. Not only as travellers but also in the fields of medical and military service, scholarship and education, journalism and literature, did these travellers contribute in very significant ways to the expansion of women's horizons, and to the attempt to gain greater freedom for women in society in general. |
Contents
Edith Durham as a Collector | 32 |
The Work of British Medical Women in Serbia during | 71 |
A Case Study in the Social | 90 |
18861968 | 98 |
Margaret Masson Hasluck | 128 |
An Englishwomans Experiences | 155 |
An Anthropologist in the Village | 187 |
Womens Quest | 208 |
a Bibliographical | 241 |
The Contributors | 257 |
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