Women, space, and travel -- Charting the routes -- Situating women and their travel -- Inter-island travel: women negotiating boundaries of propriety -- Travel to urban centres: nurses and teachers mobilizing selves -- Travel abroad: recollections of domestic workers -- Moving forward: a process of becoming
Summary
Emphasizes how travel situates Eastern Indonesian women at the intersection of ethnicity/place, class and gender politics. Investigates theoretical issues of travel within feminist geography frameworks. Field research focuses on contemporary rural women and was conducted mainly in parts of East Nusa Tenggara and while travelling on boats in the region
