Tourism and Gender : Embodiment, Sensuality and Experience

by A. Pritchard; A. Morgan; L. Ateljevic; C. Harris

• ISBN13: 9781845932718
• ISBN10: 1845932714
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-24
• Publisher: Cab Intl

Summary

While contemporary popular discourses dismiss gender and feminism as passé, patriarchy and sexism continue to limit human possibilities around the globe. The tourism industry can be a force for empowerment but it can also shore up exploitative gendered practices. At the same time, tourism enquiry itself continues to be dominated by western, masculinist approaches. This collection of studies 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 finally how travel and tourism allow for empowerment, resistance and carnivalesque opportunities.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
List of Tables	p. xv
List of Figures	p. xvii
Editors' Introduction: Tourism, Gender, Embodiment and Experience	p. 1
The Body in Tourism Industry	p. 13
Ambivalent Journeys: Writing Travel as the Feminist Stranger in Desert Places	p. 32
Travelling for Masculinity: The Construction of Bodies/Spaces in Israeli Backpackers' Narratives	p. 47
The Emergence of the Body in the Holiday Accounts of Women and Girls	p. 73
Life's a Beach and then We Diet: Discourses of Tourism and the 'Beach Body' in UK Women's Lifestyle Magazines	p. 92
The Sensual Embodiment of Italian Women	p. 107
Bodies, Carnival and Honey Days: The Example of Coney Island	p. 126
The Embodiment of the Macho Gaze in South-eastern Europe: Performing Femininity and Masculinity in Albania and Croatia	p. 138
Encountering Scopophilia, Sensuality and Desire: Engendering Tahiti	p. 158
Gendered Tourism Space: A South African Perspective	p. 182
Advertisements as Tourism Space: 'Learning' Masculinity and Femininity from New Zealand Television	p. 207
Gender Posed: The People Behind the Postcards	p. 219
Travelling Beyond the Boundaries of Constraint: Women, Travel and Empowerment	p. 235
An Israeli Lesbian's Travel Experience: A Heterosexual Man's Interpretation of Her Diary	p. 251
Embodying Everyday Masculinities in Heritage Tourism(s)	p. 263
In Search of Lesbian Space? The Experience of Manchester's Gay Village	p. 273
(Un)veiling Women's Employment in the Egyptian Travel Business	p. 290
Gender and Tourism Development: A Case Study of the Cappadoccia Region of Turkey	p. 302
Index	p. 315
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