Feminism and the politics of travel after the Enlightenment /
Schlick, Yaël Rachel,1963-
Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]- [217]) and index.
Travel, knowledge, utopia -- I. Travel and domesticity -- The sex of travel : sexual contract and enlightenment travel in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft -- Travel and talent : the culture of domesticity in Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Germaine de Staël, and Frances Burney -- II. Travel and new communities -- Traveling theories and political formation : the feminist peregrinations of Flora Tristan -- Travel as praxis : Suzanne Voilquin and the Saint-Simonian "Call to the woman" -- III. Travel and history -- Spatial literacy and the female traveler : the politics of map-reading in Gustave Flaubert and George Sand -- Moving forward.
Women travelers
Travelers' writings
Feminist literature