Tourism and gender : embodiment, sensuality and experience /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ateljevic, Irena (Editor), Harris, Candice (Editor), Morgan, Nigel (Editor), Pritchard, Annette (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
Subjects:	Gender identity. Tourism > Psychological aspects. Tourists > Attitudes. Tourists > Sexual behavior. Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000) Tourism and Travel. Women. Gender relations. Man. Men. Sexual behaviour. Sociology of tourism. Tourism. Tourists. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.