Fiction & Non-Fiction:

Acker, Kathy. Pussy, King of the Pirates
Badami, Anita Rau. Tamarind Mem (1996)
Diski, Jenny. Skating to Antarctica (1997)
Drakulic, Slavenka. Cafe Europa (1996)
Mendelsohn, Jane. I was Amelia Earhart
Morris, Mary. Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Travelling Alone (1988)
Thomas, Audrey. Latakia
Van Herk, Aritha. No Fixed Address (1986)

Film:

Scott, Ridley, dir. Thelma and Louise (1991)
Makhalbaf, Mohsen, dir. Gabbeh (1995)

Video:

Hatoum, Mona, dir. Measures of Distance (1988)

Theoretical & critical texts:

Braidotti, Rosi. "Sexual Difference as a Nomadic Political Project." Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. 146-72.
Frederick, Bonnie, and Virginia Hyde. Introduction. Women and the Journey: The Female Travel Experience. Ed. Bonnie Frederick and Susan H. McLeod. Pullman: Washington State UP, 1993. xvii-xxxiii.
Friedman, Bonnie. "Relinquishing Oz: Every Girl's Anti-Adventure Story." The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures. Ed. Laurence Goldstein and Ira Konigsberg. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 41-59.
Grosz, Elizabeth. "Inscriptions and Body Maps: Representations of the Corporeal." Space, Gender, Knowledge: Feminist Readings. Ed. Linda McDowell and Joanne P. Sharp. London: Arnold, 1997. 236-47.
John, Mary E. "Postcolonial Feminists in the Western Intellectual Field: Anthropologists and Native Informants?" Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory, and Postcolonial Histories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 5-28.
Rose, Gillian. "Women and Everyday Spaces." Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993. 17-40.
Wilson, Elizabeth. "Into the Labyrinth." The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women. London: Virago Press, 1991.1-11.

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