Gender Companionship and Travel

<p>Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route. Yet even if various studies have informed us about present-day realities of travel companionships we know little about the influence of gender both on these realities as well as on the discourse in which these are being narrated. </p><p></p><p>This book aims to establish an agenda for the study of companionship in travel writing by offering a collection of new essays which study texts that belong to the broad category of pre-modern and modern travel literature. Chapters explore the differences and similarities in the ways that women and men in the past chose to describe their experiences with and/or their ideas about companionship and specifically reveals the influence of gender norms conventions restrictions and stereotypes. </p><p></p><p>This is the first book which looks at the long-term interdisciplinary and genuinely international history of gendered discourses on companionship in travel writing. It will be of interest to scholars and students from a wide variety of disciplines including cultural and social history as well as cultural literary gender travel and tourism studies.</p>