Most nineteenth-century adventure fiction endorses male authority, such as when the male hero's cultural superiority dominates "uncivilized" peoples or his physical prowess prevails against inhospitable environments. She helps dismantle the British patriarchal system of values that operate on the assumption that weak women are necessary for the existence of strong men. When the Female Explorer transgresses boundaries imposed by Victorian femininity through these activities, she liberates herself in other ways as well. The Female Explorer exercises her agency by intruding upon masculine spheres: she adventures across wild landscapes, advances down educational paths, travels for leisure, and competes in physically demanding sports.
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