Sexuality, Women, and Tourism

Cross-border desires through contemporary travel

Susan Frohlick (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

222 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-65129-6 (ISBN)

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This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a Central American country. As an in-depth ethnographic account, the book traces the experiences of heterosexual North American and European women’s transnational encounters, and examines new sexual and social practices arising from contemporary global tourism, shifting sexual cultures both at home and abroad, consumer culture, and women’s increasing mobility. The book combines descriptions of women’s travels and sexual relations across racial and class boundaries with feminism, postcolonial theory, and poststructuralist theories of gender and sexuality, to show how tourism as a wide range and set of desires serves as a central shaping force in the formation of women’s sexual subjectivities in contemporary life in postindustrial capitalism. In doing so it offers new insights into how tourist women express heterosexuality shaped by gender, race, class, and identities.

This fascinating book, focusing on the structure of tourism and role of local culture and social organization in the shoring-up of desire, develops a unique contribution to the understanding of sex tourism. It will be of interest not only to tourism scholars, but also to those interested in sexuality, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, women studies, gender studies, and geography.

Susan Frohlick is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

1. Introduction 2. Desiring Costa Rica 3. Sexuality 4. Embodiment 5. Intimacy 6. Difference 7. Erotics 8. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	08.03.2016
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Halftones, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-65129-X / 113865129X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-65129-6 / 9781138651296
Zustand	Neuware