Imagining the tropics : women, romance, and the making of modern tourism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Manley, Elizabeth S. (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2025]
Series:	Critical Caribbean studies.
Subjects:	Tourism > Caribbean Area > History > 20th century. Women in tourism > Social aspects > Caribbean Area > History > 20th century. Women travelers > Caribbean Area > History > 20th century. Romanticism > Caribbean Area > History > 20th century. Voyageuses > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 20e siècle. Romantisme > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 20e siècle. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction. Travel and tropical romance : understanding Caribbean tourism through gender
"Just on the edge of adventure" : women explorers, social science, and the Caribbean's "rich, unexplored field" (1910s-1920s)
Timeless playgrounds in an "endless June" : women and the travel infrastructures of the interwar Caribbean (1910s-1930s)
"The fraternity who love the islands" : tourism development and the scripting of Caribbean culture (1925-1945)
Creating "Caribbean vacationlands" : concocting the cultured tropicalities of postwar travel (1945-1960)
A "rich and cosmopolitan past" : women and the solidification of island romance (1960-1980)
Conclusion. Building something different?