At Home in the Cold: Domestic Culture in Arctic Exploration, 1890-1940

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the idea of home came into focus as a place of warmth and comfort, associated with interior spaces and feminine touches. In the same period, writing about the Arctic as a frigid and inhospitable landscape proliferated. American readers were fascinated by stories of Arctic exploration and supposedly heroic feats of survival by rugged white men. Moving between these opposing pictures were a handful of white and northern Indigenous women wh...