I. Introduction
II. "Old Profession" for "New" Journalists: The Emergence of Travel Journalism as Women's Profession
1. From "Female Journalism" to Professional Women Journalists
2. Weimar, Journalism, and Women
3. Journalism and Travel Writing
III. The Solitary Travels of a Journalist: Marie Leitner
1. Leitner's Geographies of Travel and the Composition of the Book Eine Frau reist durch die Welt
2. The Political and Theoretical Significance of Work
3. Representing Working Women
4. The Hotel as Metaphor and Working Place
5. Races, Racism, and Hybridity
6. Jazz, the Gluttons, and Vincent Lopez
7. Postcolonial History and Neocolonial Presence
8. "Im Lande des Schreckens": Penal Colonies, Prisons, and Prisoners
9. Wilderness and Culture
10. Of "White Trash": Class and Race
11. Conclusion
IV. The Travel Companion: Marieluise Fleisser
1. Place Mattered to Marieluise Fleisser
2. Gendering Travel: "Ich reise mit Draws nach Schweden"
3. The Andorra Adventures
4. Fleisser's Simulated Travels to the Zoo
5. Critique of Andorranische Abenteuer
6. Fleisser's Travel Genre: Female Autobiographical Fiction?
7. Conclusion
V. Dual Travel: Erika Mann and Klaus Mann Go Global
1. Erika Mann's Travels, Journalism, and Politics
2. The Homeland Abroad: American Germans and Germans in America
3. "Incredible" and "Hopeless" Landscapes: Global Cities and Their 'Others'
4. "Die weiße Rasse allein wird die Zukunft nicht tragen:" Races and Racism
5. The "Crack" of Authenticity: Questioning the Legacy of Western Civilization
6. Conclusion
VI. The Solo Flights of a Woman Aviator: Elly Beinhorn
1. The "Ruthless Fight" for Gender Equality in Aviation
2. The Female Sublime and the Women Aviators
3. Journalism and Women Aviators
4. Aerial Discourses and Aeronautic Travel Writing
5. The Belated Presence of Women in German Aviation
6. Technology, Power, and Gender
7. As a European Woman Among African Men
8. Discovering the Reciprocity of Otherness
9. Women Aviators under National Socialism
VIII. Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgments