Gender, Companionship, and Travel: Discourses in Pre-Modern and Modern Travel Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138579927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 276 str.

Floris Meens; Tom Sintobin

Opis

This book explores companionship in travel writing in pre-modern and modern times. It features women as travellers from all parts of the world, with varied travel patterns and behaviours. It documents their stories against the backdrop of companionship, or the absence of it. The book reveals that from antiquity onwards traveling together has always been a structural part of women’s and men’s social lives, cultures and worldviews.