Abstract
In an attempt to understand the gendered nature of travel and the possibilities which travel has offered women to resist patriarchal dominance, this paper examines the phenomenon of the increase in young women’s travel during the 1960s. An analysis of the representations of women travellers in the Australian Women’s Weekly during that period was carried out, in order to explore images of travel and travellers which were available to young women at that time. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on short term departures by Australian residents were used to establish the context for the analysis. It is suggested that travel represented a resistance by young women to dominant patriarchal discourses on womanhood, and was a demonstration of agency rather than objectified commodification through travel advertising and other gendered media texts.
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