Re-centering women in tourism : anti-colonial feminist studies /

Re-Centering Women in Tourism addresses tourism as simultaneously empowering women and reproducing colonial hierarchies. By centering women's multivalent lived experiences in tourism projects, this collection reframes the very presuppositions on which tourism initiatives are based and helps ima...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Riemer, Frances Julia, 1955- (Editor), Babb, Florence E. (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2023].
Series:Anthropology of tourism: heritage, mobility, and society.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Who invited the women? : the double bind of a culturally respectful female (or feminist?) traveler / Siân Stephens
  • (Re)shaping the volunteer tourist bubble : the intersectional experiences of two women volunteers in Guatemala / Amy Kipp
  • "Skanky stories" : breaking boundaries of sexual taboo in women's narratives / Emily Falconer
  • Women's work and tourism in Negril, the capital of casual / Augusta Lynn Bolles
  • Pedagogical tourism : the gendered coloniality of Spanish lessons in Guatemala / Sarah Becklake
  • Linger, burned Bambu, aftermath nostalgia / Kris Maksymowicz
  • "The baskets cannot send the children to school ": women, handicrafts, and tourism in Botswana's Okavango Delta / Frances Julia Riemer
  • "My mother's recipe, my nation's narrative" : intersections of food, militarism, and masculinity in Maisa's kitchen / Lindsey B. Pullum
  • Entrepreneurial domesticity : women on the forefront of touristic endeavors in Costa Rica / Karen Stocker
  • Concluding thoughts / Frances Julia Riemer.