Meeting the “other” body: physical encountersrs in eighteenth-century women’s travel books

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lia Guerra
Format: Article
Language:Italian
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2017-12-01
Series:ACME
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/ACME/article/view/9356