Exploration discourse gendered the colonizer as masculine master and the land as feminine

Evidence

“Bravura noise-making was an essential signal of masculine identity for much of this era,” writes Peter Bailey, an authority on sound in Victorian England. The insistence, on the part of Florence Nightingale and others, that sick men needed quiet to heal accentuated the link between impotence, silence, and the home. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 163 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Victorian culture gendered noise as masculine and silence as feminine domesticity — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 163; Beauvoir grounded existential freedom within gendered historical situations — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 684; Conquering nature is mythically gendered as conquering woman (+1 more)

Related

• Victorian culture gendered noise as masculine and silence as feminine domesticity (similarity 0.89)

Broader Connections

• Victorian culture gendered noise as masculine and silence as feminine domesticity #exemplifies (0.78) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 163