This week’s readings focused heavily on the concept of males masculinity and its place within the mountaineering world in the post-modern era of America and Britain and how it ties into imperialist thinking in regards to native populations that inhabit the areas in which these expeditions took place. America at the turn of the 19th century…
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Reading Response, Week 5
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by lcm •
Reading Response, Week 5
Women in the Mountains
by th •
Bayers, Imperial Ascent, provided a great insight into the way masculinity has dominated the mountaineering world, through analyzing various books. I’m not particularly a huge fan of “books on books”, as I find they tend to be very dry at times, however, I enjoyed the approach Bayers took and found it to be an interesting…
Reading Response, Week 5
Week 5 Response
by mmg •
The idea of gender within the sport of mountaineering is an interesting idea that appears to reflect the thoughts of gender in society. The main contention to this argument being the way that men and women are portrayed in the text Imperial Ascent and the reading by Susan Frohlick very differently. Indeed, one can see that women and…
Book Review, Week 5
Week 5 – Imperial Ascent Response
by Bryant Lymburn •
Week 5 Response – Am I manly now? Byrant Lymburn In the early 20th century the nations of the US and Britain pushed to the ever mysterious expanses and great heights being found across the earth. After expeditions by Britain pushed into the Himalayas they were questioned as to why they would ever explore such…
Reading Response, Week 5
Wanting the Children & Wanting K2
by mkg •
I especially liked the reading regarding women, motherhood, and the workforce because it touches on an area that has not been talked about within discussions but is nonetheless a discussion that is now common and important within the workforce as more and more women enter the working world. What I found most interesting and something…
Reading Response, Uncategorized, Week 5
Week 5, Mountians and Cultural Identity
by wmg •
For weeks we have been stewing over British Imperialism and national pride, when it came to ascension of Mount Everest. The British felt that it would be a national accomplishment to make it to the top of this great mountain. However, mountains being strongly tied with cultural identity was not solely found within the British…
Uncategorized, Week 5
Gender in Mountaineering
by Colton •
Gender in society is a difficult topic for me to express. Since I am a man and don’t have 100% liberal/progressive opinions, my opinion is moot, and counted as chauvinist, bias, and counter-productive to some. That being said, I do believe that given the right circumstances and attitudes, women can compete with men, and in…
Reading Response, Week 5
by mel •
Wanting Children and Wanting K2This week I focused more on the online readings over the book and found “‘Wanting the Children and Wanting K2’:The incommensurability of motherhood and mountaineering in Britain and North America in the late twentieth century” very interesting and also a source of debate, for a couple of reasons. To begin my…
Reading Response, Week 5
Week Five Response
by mmd •
Imperial ascent was certainly an interesting book to say the least. I do not know exactly to make of it honestly, some of the ideas I thought were overly aggressive. For instance I doubt that Dr.Cook’s aim of climbing Denali was to assert his masculinity, no doubt it in all probability was a subconscious factor…