Tourism and gender : embodiment, sensuality and experience /

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 sensualit...

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Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
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245 0 0 |a Tourism and gender :  |b embodiment, sensuality and experience /  |c edited by Annette Pritchard, The Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK, Nigel Morgan, The Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK, Irena Ateljevic, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands and Candice Harris, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. 
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505 0 # |a Editors' introduction : Tourism, gender, embodiment and experience / Annette Pritchard, Nigel Morgan, Irena Ateljevic and Candice Harris -- The body in tourism industry / Soile Veijola and Anu Valtonen -- Ambivalent journeys : writing travel as the feminist stranger in Desert places / Simone Fullagar -- Travelling for masculinity : the construction of bodies/spaces in Israeli backpackers' narratives / Chaim Noy -- The emergence of the body in the holiday accounts of women and girls / Jennie Small -- Life's a beach and then we diet : discourses of tourism and the 'beach body' in UK women's lifestyle magazines / Fiona Jordan -- The sensual embodiment of Italian women / Martine Abramovici -- Bodies, carnival and honey days : the example of Coney Island / Chris Ryan and Huiman Gu -- The embodiment of the macho gaze in South-eastern Europe : performing femininity and masculinity in Albania and Croatia / Irena Ateljevic and Derek Hall -- Encountering scopophillia, sensuality and desire : engendering Tahiti / Annette Pritchard and Nigel Morgan -- Gendered tourism space: a South African perspective / Jeanne van Eeden -- Advertisements as tourism space: 'learning' masculinity and femininity from New Zealand television / Fabrice Desmarais -- Gender posed: the people behind the postcards / Greg Ringer -- Travelling beyond the boundaries of constraint: women, travel and empowerment / Candice Harris and Erica Wilson -- An Israeli lesbian's travel experience: a heterosexual man's interpretation of her diary / Yaniv Poria -- Embodying everyday masculinities in heritage tourism(s) / Dan Knox and Kevin Hannam -- In search of lesbian space? The experience of Manchester's Gay Village / Annette Pritchard, Nigel Morgan and Diane Sedgley -- (Un)veiling women's employment in the Egyptian travel business / Nashwa Samir El-Sherif Ibrahim, Annette Pritchard and Eleri Jones -- Gender and tourism development: a case study of the Cappadoccia region of Turkey / Sermin Elmas. 
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520 3 # |a 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. 
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588 # # |a Title from PDF title page (viewed August 12, 2013). 
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650 # 0 |a Gender identity. 
650 # 0 |a Tourists  |x Attitudes. 
650 # 0 |a Tourism  |x Psychological aspects. 
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