Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating have brought together an ambitious new collection of over eighty original contributions offering a bold new vision of women-of-color consciousness for the twenty-first century. Over twenty years after the ground-breaking anthologyThis Bridge Called My Backchallenged feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E.

Highlighting the differences between these authors’ journeys as well as the patterns across them, I ultimately find that these memoirists model a feminist politics of mobility, wherein moving through space redistributes power to women and renegotiates social relations that have historically supported women’s subordination. I draw on feminist geography, feminist and queer theory, memoir studies and mobility scholarship to read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love (2006), Reyna Grande’s The Distance Between Us (2012), Daisy Hernández’s A Cup of Water Under My Bed (2014), and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild (2012). women embody and represent their mobility, as well as how movement shapes their relationships to global power structures and to norms of gender and sexuality. Bringing together four contemporary memoirs that foreground journeys, I explore how U.S. This paper challenges longstanding cultural associations that link men to mobility and women to stability by outlining what I term a feminist politics of mobility.

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