Tourism and Gender: Embodiment, Sensuality and Experience

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CABI, 1 janv. 2007 - 318 pages
These studies seek 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, and how travel and tourism allow for empowerment, resistance and carnivalesque opportunities.
 

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Tourism Gender Embodiment and Experience
1
2 The Body in Tourism Industry
13
Writing Travel as the Feminist Stranger in Desert Places
32
The Construction of BodiesSpaces in Israeli Backpackers Narratives
47
5 The Emergence of the Body in the Holiday Accounts of Women and Girls
73
Discourses of Tourism and the Beach Body in UK Womens Lifestyle Magazines
92
7 The Sensual Embodiment of Italian Women
107
The Example of Coney Island
126
Learning Masculinity and Femininity from New Zealand Television
207
The People Behind the Postcards
219
Women Travel and Empowerment
235
A Heterosexual Mans Interpretation of Her Diary
251
16 Embodying Everyday Masculinities in Heritage Tourisms
263
17 In Search of Lesbian Space? The Experience of Manchesters Gay Village
273
18 Unveiling Womens Employment in the Egyptian Travel Business
290
A Case Study of the Cappadoccia Region of Turkey
302

Performing Femininity and Masculinity in Albania and Croatia
138
Engendering Tahiti
158
A South African Perspective
182

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