Download or read book Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing written by Michelle Medeiros and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines Latin American literature, cultural and gender studies, and history of science to consider the literary perspective of the discourse of natural history in women’s travel narratives, shedding a new light on the implications of women’s contributions to nineteenth and twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual currents.