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Beyond the Summit: Traversing the Historical Landscape of Annie S. Peck's and Fanny Bullock Workman's High-Altitude Ascents, 1890-1915

Ernie-Steighner, Jennifer A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1240609828

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2009, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
On May 16, 1903, Annie S. Peck, a professional mountaineer from the United States, ventured the open-waters of the Atlantic in her quest for the tallest mountain of the Western Hemisphere. Nine years later, on June 5, 1912, her contemporary, Fanny Bullock Workman, made final preparations for an upcoming excursion to the Siachen Glacier of modern-day Pakistan. While following patterns of Victorian female travel, Peck and Bullock Workman displayed distinctive bodily performances of impressive athletic endurance that pushed the bounds of the emerging “New Woman” in terms of physicality and professionalism. Consequently, Peck’s and Bullock Workman’s lives demonstrate that female mountaineers were very much a part of a Western discourse obsessed with debates of proper gender roles and women’s rights during the dawn of the twentieth century.
Mary Frederickson, PhD (Advisor)
Kimberly Hamlin, PhD (Committee Member)
Judith Zinsser, PhD (Committee Member)
58 p.
American History; Gender; History; Womens Studies
gender; women; Annie S. Peck; Fanny Bullock Workman; mountaineering; Victorian; New Woman; athleticism; nineteenth century; twentieth century; mountaineers

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  • Ernie-Steighner, J. A. (2009). Beyond the Summit: Traversing the Historical Landscape of Annie S. Peck's and Fanny Bullock Workman's High-Altitude Ascents, 1890-1915 [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1240609828

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ernie-Steighner, Jennifer. Beyond the Summit: Traversing the Historical Landscape of Annie S. Peck's and Fanny Bullock Workman's High-Altitude Ascents, 1890-1915. 2009. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1240609828.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ernie-Steighner, Jennifer. "Beyond the Summit: Traversing the Historical Landscape of Annie S. Peck's and Fanny Bullock Workman's High-Altitude Ascents, 1890-1915." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1240609828

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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