Tourism and Gender: Embodiment, Sensuality and Experience
This current collection attempts to continue the gender-focused work which has sought to rupture and destabilize some of the prevailing orthodoxies and rather cosy comfortableness of much tourism enquiry. At a time when gender research is frequently characterized as old-fashioned and irrelevant i...
Đã lưu trong:
| Những tác giả chính: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Định dạng: | Sách |
| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
| Được phát hành: |
CABI
2014
|
| Những chủ đề: | |
| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/36628 |
| Các nhãn: |
Thêm thẻ
Không có thẻ, Là người đầu tiên thẻ bản ghi này!
|
| Thư viện lưu trữ: | Thư viện Trường Đại học Đà Lạt |
|---|
| Tóm tắt: | This current collection attempts to continue the gender-focused work which has
sought to rupture and destabilize some of the prevailing orthodoxies and rather
cosy comfortableness of much tourism enquiry. At a time when gender research is
frequently characterized as old-fashioned and irrelevant in the wake of postmodernism
and post-feminism, there is a pressing need to restate the case for its place
in tourism scholarship, some 30 years after the earliest work. Gender-focused and
feminist-oriented investigation in tourism studies presents the individual researcher
with a series of personal, political and intellectual confrontations. For many of the
contributors here, their research and writing has involved personally and professionally
challenging journeys and encounters, often undertaking gender-focused or
methodologically ‘risky’ work in largely positivist academic environments which
dismiss the academic credibility of gender research and women’s studies and distain
researcher positionality and voice.
Yet, over a decade after the first coherent collections of work were published,
gender tourism studies more than ever need to embrace approaches which explore
the material, the symbolic, the social and the cultural in order to understand how
they operate as ‘both a site and process of construction, legitimation, reproduction
and reworking of gender relations’ (Aitchison, 2005, p. 22). To date the objects of
tourism gender research have almost exclusively been women (rather than women
and men) and research has largely focused on employment patterns and sex tourism,
whilst too little work has focused on women’s experiences as consumers rather than
producers of tourism. In assembling this volume we were conscious of the need
to address these gaps as well as to combine theoretical critique with sociocultural
analysis; the material with the symbolic; the body and embodiment; and tourism
sites and processes of gender relations. |
|---|