Könets roll i kartläggningen av det koloniala rummet

Abstract

Within the colonial sphere women's interventions in the produetion and negotiations of spatial frameworks cannot simply be considered in terms of notions of confinement. Although the strictures on women's movement within the colonial zone were important in shaping a notion of a woman's place and contributed to a sexualising of space, nevertheless, women as producers of knowledge and viewers of landscape were able to adopt seerningly masculine roles, because of their position within the imperial entreprise. British women's travel writing with its ambivalent postion, wavering openly transgressive qualities and acceptance of the domestic sphere and protection, forces us to consider the complexity of the role of gender in mapping colonial space.