Simone Kenyon

Link to Cairngorms Women Contributions: http://www.simonekenyon.co.uk/current/into-the-mountain/cairngorms-women-contributions/

Found Simone’s talk yesterday very interesting, particularly her discussion of her work in the Cairngorms National Park; she talked about her examination of the gendered aspect of the landscape and mountaineering culture, linking masculinity and heroism to the conventional ideas of mountaineering. 

She has met with numerous women of the Cairngorms and discussed their relationship to the land and where they feel their place is within it. 

I felt this was relevant to my concept of womanhood and our relationship to ourselves, explored through our surroundings. Although I have so far focused on the urban landscape and architecture as a form of armour. The idea of linking femininity to the sublime (something I considered originally) is very intriguing for me.