Discourses of Difference

Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills examines the relation of women travellers to colonialism positioned as they were at the site of conflicting discourses: femininity feminism and patriarchal imperialism. Using feminist discourse theory Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers - Alexandra David-Neel Mary Kingsley and Nina Mazuchelli. Her examination of agency identity and the contemporary social environment is an important and inspiring step forward in post-colonial cultural and literary theory.