This work investigates the construction, heterogeneity, and multivocal nature of gendered and sexualised Orientalisms in travel literature. The issues addressed centre on the role played by the travellers gendered and sexualised positions in the West, the contestatory nature of travelling, and the impact of historical developments pertaining to the end of empire and the sexual revolution in the West. The question is how these three factors shape cultural productions of gender and sexuality in travel accounts on the Middle East and North Africa. A hermeneutical analysis of the...