Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and ... - Laura Nenz Detto Nenzi - Google Books

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In the Edo period (1600 1868), status- and gender-based expectations largely defined a person s place and identity in society. The wayfarers of the time, however, discovered that travel provided the opportunity to escape from the confines of the everyday.…