List of Plates - List of Abbreviations - List of Figures and Tables - Note on Transcription - Acknowledgements - Preface to the Second Edition - Introduction - PART 1: ORIENTALISM, TRAVEL AND GENDER - A Prosopography of Travel, 1763-1914 - PART 2: THE WOMEN'S HAREM: AUTONOMY, SEXUALITY AND SOLIDARITY - Harem Literature, 1763-1914: Tradition and Innovation - 1717-89: The Eighteenth-Century Harem, Lady Montagu, Lady Craven and the Genealogy of Comparative `Morals', `Noveltie' and Tradition - Exorcising Sheherezad: The Victorians and the Harem Changes in Sensibilities - The Haremlik as a Bourgeois Home: Autonomy, Community and Solidarity - PART 3: EVANGELISING THE ORIENT: WOMEN'S WORK AND THE EVOLUTION OF EVANGELICAL ETHNOGRAPHY - Evangelical Travel and the Evangelical Construction of Gender - The Women of Christ Church: Work, Literature and Community in Nineteenth-Century Jerusalem - `Domestic Life in Palestine': Evangelical Ethnography, Faith and Prejudice - Feminising the Landscape - PART 4: A SECULAR GEOGRAPHY OF THE ORIENT: AUTHORITY, GENDER AND TRAVEL - Harriet Martineau's Anti-Pilgrimage: Autobiography, History and Landscape - Queen Hatasu's Beard, Amelia Edwards, the Scientific Journey and the Emergence of the First Female `Orientalists' - An `Orientalist' Couple: Anne Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and the Pilgrimage to Nejd - Appendixes - Notes - Bibliography - Index