Women experience and portray travel differently: Gender matters irreducibly and complexly. Building on recent scholarship in women s travel writing, these provocative essays not only affirm the impact of gender, but also cast women s journeys against coordinates such as race, class, culture, religion, economics, politics, and history. The book s scope is unique: Women travelers extend in time from Victorian memsahibs to contemporary -road girls-, and topics range from Anna Leonowens s slanted portrayal of Siam later popularized in the movie, The King and I, to current feminist...