Women and Their Worlds

Helena Sanson is Professor of Italian, History of Linguistics and Women’s Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.Małgorzata Trzeciak-Cygan is Assistant Professor of Italian Literature in the Faculty of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland.

• 1. Gender “Otherness” in Travel Writing: The Perspective of European Travelers - Helena Sanson and Małgorzata Trzeciak-Cygan .- 2. Italian Travelers and Female Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe - Eleonora Belligni .- 3. Bona Sforza and Anna Jagiellon in the Eyes of Italian Ambassadors, Travelers, and Polish Nobles - Olga M. Hajduk .- 4. Women in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through Travelers’ Eyes: Seventeenth-century British and Italian Perspectives - Małgorzata Trzeciak-Cygan .- 5. The Most “Agreeable Women in Europe”? British Travelers and Spanish Women, 1750–1809 - Richard Ansell and Rosemary Sweet .- 6. Women, Language, Education in Italy’s Long Eighteenth Century: The Views of French and English Travelers - Helena Sanson .- 7. Walking on the Wild Side: Indigenous Women in Sixteenth-century Travel Accounts of Brazil - Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá .- 8. Portrayals of Women and Linguistic Stability in Two New World Travel Narratives - Caroline Egan .- 10. Images of Women in the State of India in European Travel Accounts (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) - Joana Fraga .- 11. The Culture and Status of Early Modern Japanese Women, According to Luis Frois - Mihoko Suzuki .- 12. Chinese Women in European Travelers’ Descriptions - Maria Rosa Gianninoto.