Judith Johnston, Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel by Céline Sabiron

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Homecomings: Black Women’s Mobility in Early African American Fiction by Anna Pochmara

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Łucja Rautenstrauchowa's In and beyond the Alps: the Case of a Sentimental Italian Tour by Magdalena Ożarska

Subjects: “…women’s travel writing…”
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Shifting lines in Jan Kerouac’s Baby Driver. A Story about Myself (1981) by Catherine MORGAN-PROUX

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“Thinking Upon Paper”: Lady Sarah Lyttelton’s Journey to the Baltic by Marta Zonca

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The Women’s Land Army (1944): Vita Sackville-West’s Non-Fictional Wartime Writing by Christine REYNIER

“…However, her fiction and her non-fiction remain underexplored by academic criticism even as her novels The Edwardians (1930), All Passion Spent (1931), her award-winning poem The Land (1926), her travel writing (Twelve Days in Persia, 1927) and her work on her garden, Sissinghurst, remain quite popular.This paper means to focus on a little-known work of non-fiction Vita Sackville-West published towards the end of the Second World War, The Women’s Land Army (1944). …”
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Les voyageuses françaises au prisme de la bibliographie annuelle de l’histoire de France  (de 1970 à 2010) by Isabelle Havelange

“…It brings to light the writings of women travelers, which have been often understudied and neglected, and establishes a typology of their travels from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.  …”
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Voyageuses occidentales et impérialisme : l’Orient à la croisée des représentations (XIXe siècle) by Isabelle Ernot

“…This article explores how gender and imperialism are articulated in the writings of a number of French women travelers to Eastern and Arab countries in the second half of the 19th century. …”
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Traces et sens de l'Histoire chez les voyageuses françaises et britanniques dans l'Italie préunitaire (1815-1861) by Nicolas Bourguinat

“…Historical Traces and Historical Perceptions in French and British Women’s Travel Writings on Preunified Italy (1814-1861).This article deals with women's travel writing about Italy in the first half of the nineteenth century (1814-1861), using an extensive definition of travel literature. …”
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Deux Hollandaises à Trévoux (1788-1797) : voyage d’agrément ou engagement politique ? by Myriam Everard

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Dans les marges de l’orientalisme britannique : le cas d’Isabella Bird et de Journeys to Persia and Kurdestan (1891) by Laurence Chamlou

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Travels, Translations and Limitations: Ambasciatrice Caroline Crane Marsh by Etta Madden

“…This emphasis on Caroline as translator contributes to an understudied area in discussions of American women’s travel writings, building from diverse views of translation in the nineteenth century and today.…”
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Diaristes et épistolières russes (fin XVIIIe ‑ début XIXe siècle) : reflets de l’histoire by Elena Gretchanaia, Catherine Viollet

“…The following themes, in particular, are emphasized in their writings: their treatment of the education for women of the Russian nobility, the example of famous women, the social position and involvement of the diary writers’ family members, their travels through Europe and direct contact with the actors of history, and their devotion to Napoleon which was typical of Russian girls throughout the nineteenth century. …”
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Martha Graham, ‘An American, A kosmos’: Border-crossing in Martha Graham’s early works by Adeline CHEVRIER-BOSSEAU

“…This paper examines the connection between crossing borders (state limits, borders between America and Mexico or America and Europe, and temporal borders) and pushing choreographical boundaries in dance pioneer Martha Graham’s ballets created in the 1930’s and the early 1940’s.Danced only by women, Primitive Mysteries (1931) was inspired by Graham’s travels in New Mexico, and explores the rituals of the Native Americans of the Southern States of the United States; nine years later, Graham would explore this theme further with El Penitente, which also draws from the Medieval tradition of mystery plays. …”
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« ‘This, I told myself, was really Africa’. Des territoires et des femmes. Récits féminins de voyage en Afrique Australe à la fin du XIXe siècle » by Ludmila Ommundsen

“…In Victorian Britain, travel writing was informed by an unprecedented colonial expansion – in particular, the “scramble for Africa” – and the rise of the women’s movement in the late 19th century. …”
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La Femme n’existe pas by Siham Mehaimzi

“…This poem took shape over several months of travel, it was written under the request of Serge Pey for the week against violence against women held at « La cave poésie » in Toulouse. …”
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Deníky Marie Jany hraběnky Harbuval von Chamaré (1722-1792) by Pavla Janáčková

“… Diaries of aristocratic women who lived in the Bohemian kingdom in the 18th century are rather rare. …”
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Determinants of the Continuum of Maternal Healthcare Services in Northwest Ethiopia: Findings from the Primary Health Care Project by Asmamaw Atnafu, Adane Kebede, Bisrat Misganaw, Destaw Fetene Teshome, Gashaw Andargie Biks, Getu Debalkie Demissie, Haileab Fekadu Wolde, Kassahun Alemu Gelaye, Mezgebu Yitayal, Tadesse Awoke Ayele, Telake Azale, Terefe Derso, Tsegaye Gebremedhin, Endalkachew Dellie

“…The study revealed that the overall completion of the continuum of maternal healthcare services was 21.60% (95% CI: 18.20, 24.90). Women who were able to read and write (AOR: 2.70, 95% CI: 1.22, 6.04), using car/motorcycle as a means of transportation to get the health facility (AOR: 5.59, 95% CI: 2.29, 9.50), travel time less than an hour to get the health facility (AOR: 4.98, 95% CI: 2.97, 8.38), being satisfied with the service delivery (AOR: 1.89, 95% CI: 1.15, 3.11), and getting health education on maternal healthcare services in the last 6 months (AOR: 2.77, 95% CI: 1.52, 5.05) were factors associated with the completion of the continuum of maternal healthcare services. …”
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