Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

Siu Yee Hei. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-170). / Abstracts in English and Chinese; appendix in Chinese. / Acknowledgement --- p.ii / Abstract --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Literature Review --- p.3 / Methodology --- p.19 / Structure of Thesis --- p.28 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Social Background of Women's Mobility --- p.28 / Travel and Women in Chinese History --- p.28 / Travel and Women in Hong Kong History --- p.34 / Women and Traveling for Leisure --- p.37 / Development of Outbound Travel in Hong Kong --- p.39 / New Middle Class and Independent Travel --- p.42 / Concluding Remarks --- p.44 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Solo Travelers --- p.46 / Background of Travelers --- p.46 / Definition of´بIndependent´ةand ´بOutbound´ة --- p.48 / Group 1 - Travel as Training --- p.52 / Group 2 - Travel as Meeting New People --- p.61 / Group 3 - Travel as Breaking Away from the Original System --- p.71 / Group 4 - Travel as Achieving a Different Self --- p.83 / Concluding Remarks --- p.93 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Group Travelers --- p.97 / Background of Travelers --- p.97 / Definition of´بIndependent´ة and ´بOutbound´ة --- p.99 / Relationships Matter in Travel --- p.101 / Travel - For Alternative Achievements VS Perpetuate the Current Situation --- p.113 / Travel ´ؤ An Entitlement to Self-Actualization and Enj oyment --- p.121 / Concluding Remarks --- p.124 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Exploring the Complexity of Empowerment --- p.128 / "Empowerment: Same Nature, Different Degrees" --- p.128 / Difference in Quality of Empowerment: Women vs Men --- p.130 / Complement to the Model of Empowerment --- p.136 / "Bodily Harassment: Avoidance, Victim-blaming or Tolerance" --- p.140 / Maintenance of Parent-Child Relationship --- p.143 / Strengthening the Concepts of´بManhood´ةand ´بWomanhood´ة --- p.145 / Concluding Remarks --- p.148 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.151 / References Cited --- p.165 / Appendices --- p.171

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 355-365). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

The present study has two major goals: first it reconstructs the history of travel-literature from the Middle Ages to the 19th century with a special focus on the role of women, second it attempts to analyse and evaluate travel-accounts by women who travelled to the Orient in the 19th century (Engel-Egli, Forneris, Pfeiffer, Hahn-Hahn and Muhlbach). / The reconstruction of the history of travel and travel-literature up to the 18th century shows that it was possible for women to travel with relative freedom. With the polarization of gender-roles in the last third of the 18th century, however, women were declared 'unfit for travel' and confined to their homes. Due to this development, travel-accounts by women travelling to the Orient, that were written in the middle of the 19th century, have to fulfil a special function. Besides representing an attempt to reestablish the tradition of female travellers that had been suppressed from the middle of the 18th century on, travelling to the Orient meant that the female authors in question had access to areas and spaces that were both off limits to their male counterparts (i.e. the harem) and charged with sexually connoted images. Forneris,' Pfeiffer's and Hahn-Hahn's statements can be interpreted as a conscious attempt to criticize European man through the deconstruction of the images of the Oriental femme fatale in two ways: the first criticism is that they present themselves as authorities with regard to the domain of the Oriental woman. The second occurs through consciously creating grotesque anti-images, whereby women turn the "oriental dream" of their male contemporaries into a nightmare. This act of turning the images into their opposite happens without taking into account the culturally different woman. She has been reduced to the status of an object by women travelling to the Orient exactly in the same manner as male colleagues reduced them. / In addition, this analysis gives special consideration to much discussed 19th century elements of racial theories which found their way into the travel accounts.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 245-261) Also available in print.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2002. / Adviser: Sonia Hofkosh. Submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 291-310). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [272]-284).