While 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.
1: 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
PhD is Head of the Department of Business at Swansea University, UK. A strong proponent of advocacy scholarship, he was one of originators of the notion of hopeful tourism scholarship and is co-chair of the biennial Critical Tourism Studies Conference Series. Nigel has a background in leisure policy and public sector tourism and public relations management. He is passionately interested in the connections between tourism, social justice, identity and place and has written or edited 15 books in these areas. Nigel is an editorial board member of several leading international journals including Place Branding & Public Diplomacy, Hospitality & Society and Vacation Marketing and is an Associate Editor of the Annals of Tourism Research.
