Tourism and gender : embodiment, sensuality and experience /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Subjects: Tourists > Sexual behavior.; Gender identity.; Tourists > Attitudes.; Tourism > Psychological aspects.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Women.; Tourism and Travel.; Man.; Gender relations.; Men.; Sexual behaviour.; Sociology of tourism.; Tourism.; Tourists.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book seeks to advance feminist and gender tourism studies with its focus on embodiment. Broad themes include: the construction of narratives; how discourses of desire, sensuality and sexuality pervade the tourism experience; the use of the body to represent femininity, masculinity and sensuality; and how travel and tourism allow for empowerment, resistance and carnivalesque opportunities. The book has 19 chapters and a subject index.