This book writes itself off the guide map of familiar literary
forms and melts down conceptual barriers, offering a new kind of
reading and thinking experience as it tells the life and travel
stories of fascinating women and examines women's physical mobility
in a culture of gendered, postcolonial space that restricts their
movement. Straddling the divide between fiction and scholarship, it
combines fictional narrative, contemplation, theoretical thinking,
scholarly discussion, and interviews. The book examines and crosses
boundaries on various ontological levels--between genders,
languages, historical epochs, and literary genres--as it questions
reality, identity, knowledge, culture, truth, and mind.
While openly confronting the author's location in Israel, the book
looks at women's ability to take themselves from place to place,
viewing space and spatial freedom as deeply gendered in modern
Western cultures. From this perspective, "home" is imagined as a
protective holding space for one gender, and girls are
systematically deskilled for spatial competence. The author tells
of women whose lives embody a powerful project of travel, realizing
exceptional degrees of independence, and also tells of women who
refrain from driving, a major contemporary tool of autonomous
movement.
The book imagines a movement-nurturing space that subverts the
confining construct of home. From this nonexistent yet tangibly
welcoming home space, the "glass corridors" of home--analogous to
the "glass ceiling" of professional life--can be brought into full
view and denaturalized. This cannot be accomplished, however,
without a compelling, painful look at the patriarchal, colonial,
and militarized structures underpinning all Western travel, women's
emancipatory journeys included--a look influenced by the
still-colonial structure of the author's Israeli placement.
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