Who carries the luggage? Gendered discourses on companionship in travel wring [Working tle] Call for papers, peer-reviewed edited volume We two ladies ... have found out and will maintain that ladies alone get on in travelling much beer than with gentlemen ... The only use of a gentleman in travelling is to look aſter the luggage, and we take care to have no luggage. (Emily Lowe, Unprotected Females in Norway: Or, The Pleasantest Way of Travelling There . 1857) It is generally assumed that early travel reports were predominantly wrien by men because they moved more freely in the public sphere. For the same reason, so scholars have argued, women did not appear in travel literature as travel companions but rather as objects of desire or as someone to return home to. Since the 1970s in parcular, the absence of women in the mobile sociees of Europe and beyond has been quesoned. Aſter a reappraisal of diaries, leers, scienfic reports, etc. of travelling women in the 19 th and 20 th centuries, it has become clear that women undertook voyages of their own, some in companionship of other women, others in companionship of men. Modern scholarship has acknowledged this more nuanced image of the pracce of travel, but the ways in which men and women travellers interacted with each other while en route have not yet been a systemac focus of scholarly aenon. The present volume aims to fill that gap. We invite scholars to contribute to this study by looking at discourses that underlie texts dealing with men and women travelling together. We welcome papers that focus on any parcular text or genre that belongs to the broad category of (pre-modern, modern and postmodern) travel literature. These include real or fantascal travel journals, travelogues and travel guides, blogs and accounts on social media, but also documents such as pilgrim stories, and classical texts such as the Bible, Homer’s Odyssey and the Ramayana. Papers might deal with all quesons related to travel, gender and texts, e.g.: - How did men and women represent themselves and each other in their travelogues? - How different or how similar were their travelling experiences and the roles they assumed during the journey? - How were their wrings on their trips evaluated in the press?