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In this work, the author focuses on the conquest of the North Pole as she reveals how popular print and visual media, including photography and video, defined and shaped American national ideologies from the early 20th century to the present.

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A passion for blankness - US and British polar discourse; nationalism on ice - technology and masculinity at the North Pole; National Geographic Society and Magazine - technologies of nationalism, race, and gender; white fade-out? heroism and the National Geographic in the age of multiculturalism; science and writing - the adventures of male embodiment.

Gender On Ice

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    A Paperback / softback by Lisa Bloom

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/08/1993
      ISBN13: 9780816620937, 978-0816620937
      ISBN10: 0816620938

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this work, the author focuses on the conquest of the North Pole as she reveals how popular print and visual media, including photography and video, defined and shaped American national ideologies from the early 20th century to the present.

      Table of Contents
      A passion for blankness - US and British polar discourse; nationalism on ice - technology and masculinity at the North Pole; National Geographic Society and Magazine - technologies of nationalism, race, and gender; white fade-out? heroism and the National Geographic in the age of multiculturalism; science and writing - the adventures of male embodiment.

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