Women And Travel

Since publishing A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the seventh in an annual series—The Best Women’s Travel Writing—that presents inspiring and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads are a woman’s perspective and compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn’t. In The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011, readers Have lunch with a mobster in Japan and drinks with an IRA member in Ireland Learn the secrets of flamenco in Spain and the magic of samba in Brazil Deliver a trophy for best testicles in a small town in rural Serbia Fall in love while riding a camel through the Syrian Desert Ski a first descent of over 5,000 feet in Northern India Discover the joy of getting naked in South Korea Leave it all behind to slop pigs on a farm in Ecuador...and much more.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Book Series -- About the Series Editor -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Introduction: Women and Travel, Past and Present -- Section I: Historical Accounts of Women's Travel -- 2: Women and the Tourist Gaze: Historical and Contemporary Issues for Women Traveling in Male-Dominated Public Space -- 3: Opportunity to Escape: The OE and New Zealand Women Travelers -- Section II: Women's Travel Issues and Constraints -- 4: A Time and Space of One's Own: Women's Resistance to the Motherhood Discourse on Family Holidays -- 5: Citizens of the World: Brazilian Women's Performances in Independent Travel -- 6: Iranian Women Traveling: Exploring an Unknown Universe -- Section III: Gendered Approaches to Studying Women's Travel -- 7: Expanding Understanding: Using the 'Choraster' to Provide a Voice for the Female Traveler -- 8: Women's Travel Narratives of Paris and the Emotional Geographies of Place -- 9: Risk Perception of Asian Solo Female Travelers: An Autoethnographic Approach -- Section IV: Contemporary Women's Travel: Trends and Experiences -- 10: Independent Women Travelers' Experiences and Identity Development through Multi-sensual Experiences in New Zealand -- 11: Travelers, Tourists, Migrants, or Workers? Transformative Journeys of Migrant Women -- 12: Home Holidays as Real Holidays? Midlife Single Women's Experiences -- 13: Women Traveling for Health Tourism: Results from Focus Groups in Austria -- Section V: Industry Perspectives -- 14: Fear and Loathing: Women Travelers and Safety in India -- 15: The Role of a Female-Only Online Hospitality Network in the Changing World of Women's Independent Travel -- Index

The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of these elements, questions of veracity and authenticity inevitably arise. Women, Travel, and Truth is a collection of twelve essays that explore the manifold ways in which travel and truth interact in women's travel writing. Essays range in date from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the eighteenth century to Jamaica Kincaid in the twenty-first, across such regions as India, Italy, Norway, Siberia, Austria, the Orient, the Caribbean, China and Mexico. Topics explored include blurred distinctions of fiction and non-fiction; travel writing and politics; subjectivity; displacement, and exile. Students and academics with interests in literary studies, history, geography, history of art, and modern languages will find this book an important reference.

A wide-ranging exploration of women's travel writing between 1714 and 1789, emphasising women's contribution to processes of cultural change.

Gives women travelers advice on selecting a travel companion, dressing for safety, avoiding sexual predators and scam artists, and having fun despite travel mixups.

From eccentric, to cautious, to conventional, An anthology of Women's Travel Writing aims to challenge stereotypes of women travelers by presenting a range of possible forms of writing and new archetypes of female travelers. These diverse writings also attempt to confront the textual problems which result from both writing and traveling as a woman, such as the depiction of other women, the representation of spatial relations, and the relationship to the adventure hero narrative.

Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fiber. Female travelers were also frequently represented on the English stage and in other creative works, both as a reproach to the ban on female travel and as a reflection of historical women's travel, whether intentional or not. Travel and Travail conclusively refutes the notion of female travel in the early modern era as "an absent presence." The first part of the volume offers analyses of female travelers (often recently widowed or accompanied by their husbands), the practicalities of female travel, and how women were thought to experience foreign places. The second part turns to literature, including discussions of roving women in Shakespeare, Margaret Cavendish, and Thomas Heywood. Whether historical actors or fictional characters, women figured in the wider world of the global Renaissance, not simply in the hearth and home.

Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic. "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together. Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War.