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Book SynopsisWhile 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 Contents1: Editors' Introduction: Tourism, gender, embodiment and experience; A Pritchard, N Morgan, I Ateljevic and C Harris 2: The body in the tourism industry; S Veijola and A Valtonen, University of Lapland, Finland 3: Ambivalent journeys: Writing travel as the feminist stranger in Desert Places; S Fullagar, Griffith University, Australia 4: Travelling for masculinity: The construction of bodies/spaces in Israeli backpackers' narratives; C Noy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 5: The emergence of the body in the holiday accounts of women and girls; J Small, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 6: Life's a beach and then we diet: Discourses of tourism and the 'beach body' in UK women's lifestyle magazines; F Jordan, University of West England, Bristol, UK 7: The sensual embodiment of Italian women; M Abramovici, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand 8: Bodies, carnival and honey days: The example of Coney Island; C Ryan, University of Waikato Management School, New Zealand, and H Gu, Beijing International Studies University/Beijing Tourism Bureau, China 9: The embodiment of the macho gaze in South-Eastern Europe: Performing femininity and masculinity in Albania and Croatia; I Ateljevic and D Hall, Seabank Associates, UK 10: Encountering scopophillia, sensuality and desire: Engendering Tahiti; A Pritchard and N Morgan 11: Consuming exoticism and gendered space in South Africa's The Lost City; J van Eeden, University of Pretoria, South Africa 12: Advertisements as tourism space: Learning 'masculinity' and 'femininity' from New Zealand television; F Desmarais, University of Waikato, New Zealand 13: Gender posed: The people behind the postcards; G Ringer, University of Oregon, USA 14: Travelling beyond the boundaries of constraint: Women, travel and empowerment; C Harris and E Wilson, Southern Cross University, Australia 15: Tourism and anonymity: A heterosexual man's interpretation of an Israeli lesbian women's diary; Y Poria, Ben Gurion University, Israel 16: Embodying everyday masculinities in heritage tourism(s); D Knox and K Hannam, University of Sunderland, UK 17: In search of lesbian space? The experience of Manchester's Gay Village; A Pritchard, N Morgan and D Sedgley, University of Wales Institute, Wales 18: (Un)veiling women's employment in the Egyptian travel business; N S El-Sherif Ibrahim, Helwan University, Egypt, A Pritchard and E Jones, University of Wales Institute, UK 19: Gender and tourism development: a case study of the Cappadoccia region of Turkey; Sermin Elmas
