Tourism and gender: embodiment, sensuality and experience

Abstract

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.