Tourism and gender: embodiment, sensuality and experience
Tourism and gender: embodiment, sensuality and experience [electronic resource]
Edited by A. Pritchard, N. Morgan, I. Ateljevic, C. Harris.
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- WallingfordUK CABI 2007
- 318pp.;
- CABI Books .
- CABI Books .
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.
9781845932725
10.1079/9781845932718.0000 doi
gender relations eukaryotes primates vertebrates sexuality sexual behavior sociology of tourism men mammals tourists Chordata Homo empowerment tourism sexual behaviour women animals Hominidae sexual practices man
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.
9781845932725
10.1079/9781845932718.0000 doi
gender relations eukaryotes primates vertebrates sexuality sexual behavior sociology of tourism men mammals tourists Chordata Homo empowerment tourism sexual behaviour women animals Hominidae sexual practices man