False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction. By Julie Rak (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021), 268pp.

Peter Hansen

doi:10.47060/jaaas.v2i2.144

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Mediating Mountains

False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction. By Julie Rak (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021), 268pp.

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Submitted: July 22, 2021
Published: 2021-06-30

Abstract

This is a review of Julie Rak's monograph False Summit (2021).

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Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Diemberger, Kurt. The Endless Knot: K2, Mountain of Dreams and Destiny. Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers, 1991.
Gammelgaard, Lene. Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1999.
Ortner, Sherry B. Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999)
Tabei, Junko, and Helen Y. Rolfe. Honouring High Places: the Mountain Life of Junko Tabei. Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, 2017.

Keywords

mountaineering
gender

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How to Cite

Hansen, Peter. “False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction. By Julie Rak (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), 268pp”. JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, June 2021, pp. 272-5, https://doi.org/10.47060/jaaas.v2i2.144.

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