Women on the Road

Feminist ideologies are applied to the notion of travel in numerous ways. One of the methods that women use travel is as a means to escape from the "private", or domestic, sphere of society and become an active participant of the "public sphere", which is represented as the road. The role that women assume in the public sphere is one of power, because they are essentially asserting their independence in a traditionally masculine space.

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Gender Minority Links

• Feminism and Repression of Women

• Women on the Road

• Paper Summaries

• Annotated Bibliography

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Class Links

• Born to Run

• Gender Minority