Sidonie Smith. Moving Lives: 20th h...

Sidonie Smith. Moving Lives: 20th hundred Women's Travel Writing. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P 2001 240 PP ISBN 0-8166-2875-0 $1795

Given our fascination with the connections between motion and sex and our long history of linking technology and progres Sidonie Smith's examination of the mutual adjunct of these human endeavors is timely. Smith's Moving Lives builds onward and expands her earlier work forward women's autobiography, textuality, and the carcass Here, she reads narratives from women who sought twentieth centenary versions of the "quest"-making their