A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #346 - Culture, Read Lucie Azéma: Women are also on the journey: emancipation through departure (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

"Don't go, you'll get raped!"» These are generally the encouragements 
that a woman will hear who announces to those around her her plan to 
leave for a long trip. While a man will often receive praise and 
admiration; because he, it is obvious of course, will know how to face 
danger. ----- However, recalls Lucie Azéma, according to statistics a 
woman is much more likely to be violently abused within her home than on 
the other side of the world. The major difficulties encountered by 
female explorers are never linked to their gender. On the contrary, the 
fact of being a woman who travels tends to help society to perceive the 
adventurer as an individual first, placing her outside the perception of 
the "feminine" and opening her up to the foreigner. doors that will 
remain closed for women in the region.

The consequence of this "consideration" is that it builds a real cage 
around those it targets in the service of patriarchy. And it takes 
double the courage and energy to mount an expedition when you are 
socialized as a woman... (Even worse when you are a mother!)

As a result, traveling is a devilishly effective way to highlight 
inequalities between genders, free oneself from them and thus 
demonstrate their ineptitude. Lucie Azéma, traveler and avid reader of 
travel stories, provides us with proof here. She shares her annoyance at 
the boasting of travelers who, when she offers her help, take the 
opportunity to explain to her how to understand the country where she 
has been living for several months. It is also about decolonizing 
travel; in very stimulating pages she recalls the extent to which 
exploration and colonization are closely linked, and bets that women are 
less likely to fall into the trap of essentializing the foreigner.

The pleasure of reading also comes from the author's taste for travel, 
who peppers her reflections with numerous anecdotes, and seeks to define 
what constitutes the pleasure of traveling. A book that makes us feel 
the wind of freedom!

Mélanie (AL's friend)

Lucie Azéma, Women also travel: emancipation through departure, Éditions 
Points, October 2022, 256 pages, 8.90 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Lucie-Azema-Les-Femmes-aussi-sont-du-voyage-l-emancipation-par-le-depart
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