Lisa Bloom (University of California, Santa Cruz) seeks to connect the mythical schema of the exploration of the North Pole to different male cultural identities of the U.S. Part of the afternoon sessions at the Scholar and Feminist Conference XIV. This tape is preceded by BC13-58_SFAudio_208. Papers presented or name of session: "The Post-Mortem Condition: Re-membering Marilyn Monroe"; "The North Polar Expeditions of Robert E Curry, Matthew Henson and Frederick Cook: A semiology of American Nationalist and Masculanist Discourses"; "Pilgrimage as Poetics: Dorothy Richardson"; "Frances Farmer and the Legacy of Hysteria" .