{"title":"Traveling with her mother's tastes: the negotiation of gender, race, and location in wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands.","authors":"S Gunning","doi":"10.1086/495644","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"T he autobiograplhy Wonderfl Adventures ofMrs. Seacole in Many Lands ([1857] 1984) by Jamaican mixed-race \"Creole\" Mary Jane Grant Seacole (1805-81) reveals a great deal about the complex interplay in the nineteenth century between gendered mobility, black diaspora identity, colonial power, and transnational circularity.1 As a black entrepreneur and \"doctress\" who ran combination lodging houses and taverns in the Caribbean and Central America, Seacole relocated midcareer to Turkey during the Crimean War (1854-56) to service the needs of English soldiers on the battlefield. After losing her business when the war ended sooner than expected, she settled in England and attempted to recover from bankruptcy","PeriodicalId":51382,"journal":{"name":"Signs","volume":"26 4","pages":"949-81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"31","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Signs","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/495644","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"WOMENS STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
T he autobiograplhy Wonderfl Adventures ofMrs. Seacole in Many Lands ([1857] 1984) by Jamaican mixed-race "Creole" Mary Jane Grant Seacole (1805-81) reveals a great deal about the complex interplay in the nineteenth century between gendered mobility, black diaspora identity, colonial power, and transnational circularity.1 As a black entrepreneur and "doctress" who ran combination lodging houses and taverns in the Caribbean and Central America, Seacole relocated midcareer to Turkey during the Crimean War (1854-56) to service the needs of English soldiers on the battlefield. After losing her business when the war ended sooner than expected, she settled in England and attempted to recover from bankruptcy
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Recognized as the leading international journal in women"s studies, Signs has since 1975 been at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship. Signs publishes pathbreaking articles of interdisciplinary interest addressing gender, race, culture, class, nation, and/or sexuality either as central focuses or as constitutive analytics; symposia engaging comparative, interdisciplinary perspectives from around the globe to analyze concepts and topics of import to feminist scholarship; retrospectives that track the growth and development of feminist scholarship, note transformations in key concepts and methodologies, and construct genealogies of feminist inquiry; and new directions essays, which provide an overview of the main themes, controversies.
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