Meeting the “other” body: physical encountersrs in eighteenth-century women’s travel books
Journal: Riviste UNIMI (Università degli studi di Milano)
Year: 2017

This paper addresses eighteenth-century women’s travel writing outside Europe from the perspective of their representation of the (foreign) body. The assumption is that while gazing at the others’ bodies, women were forcing themselves into a perception of their own bodies as clearly distinct from or as cognate to the foreign ones. The examples provided aim at showing how the representation of other bodies calls for an acknowledgment of domestic cultural issues, whether the debate is on ethical p