BOOK COVER 1
HALF-TITLE 2
TITLE 3
COPYRIGHT 4
DEDICATION 5
CONTENTS 7
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9
INTRODUCTION 10
FOUCAULT AND THE STUDY OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE 15
FOUCAULT AND FEMINISM 21
THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK 28
Part I CRITICAL RESPONSES TO WOMEN\u2019S TRAVEL WRITING 34
1 FEMINIST WORK ON WOMEN\u2019S TRAVEL WRITING 36
HOW DO FEMINISTS READ WOMEN\u2019S TRAVEL WRITING? 37
CRITICISM OF WOMEN TRAVEL WRITERS 40
PROBLEMS IN THE ANALYSIS OF WOMEN\u2019S TRAVEL WRITING 44
WOMEN\u2019S INVOLVEMENT IN COLONIALISM 48
THE DIFFERENCE OF WOMEN\u2019S WRITING 49
THEORISED READINGS OF TRAVEL WRITING 51
2 GENDER AND THE STUDY OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE 56
PERSONAL STATEMENTS 56
HOMOGENEITY OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE 60
TRUTH-VALUE OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE 62
LACK OF ADDRESS TO GENDER 66
Part II CONSTRAINTS ON PRODUCTION AND RECEPTION 74
3 FOUCAULT AND CONSTRAINTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF TEXT 76
CONVENTIONS OF TRAVEL WRITING 82
DISCOURSES OF IMPERIALISM 95
DISCOURSES OF FEMININITY 103
4 CONSTRAINTS ON THE RECEPTION OF WOMEN\u2019S TRAVEL WRITING 116
Part III CASE STUDIES 130
5 ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL: MY JOURNEY TO LHASA (1927) 132
6 MARY KINGSLEY: TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA (1897) 160
COLONIAL DISCOURSES 162
FEMININE DISCOURSES 175
7 NINA MAZUCHELLI: THE INDIAN ALPS AND HOW WE CROSSED THEM (1876) 182
DISCOURSES OF FEMININITY 183
COLONIAL DISCOURSES 195
8 CONCLUSION 202
NOTES 208
BIBLIOGRAPHY 222
INDEX 238