Gender Equality and Tourism (eBook)

Beyond Empowerment

Stroma Cole (Herausgeber)

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2018
CABI (Verlag)
978-1-78639-444-6 (ISBN)

Infos

With its questions on the extent to which tourism brings women empowerment, this book is an engaging and thought-provoking read. It critiques how the industry has allowed women to renegotiate gender norms and the work still needed to be done, with real life stories from women working in tourism.

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Does tourism empower women working in and producing tourism? How are women using the transformations tourism brings to their advantage? How do women, despite prejudice and stereotypes, break free, resist and renegotiate gender norms at the personal and societal levels? When does tourism increase women's autonomy, agency and authority? The first of its kind this book delivers:

A critical approach to gender and tourism development from different stakeholder perspectives, from INGOs, national governments, and managers as well as workers in a variety of fields producing tourism.

Stories of individual women working across the world in many aspects of tourism.

A foreword by Margaret Bryne Swain and contributions from academics and practitions from across the globe.

A lively and accessible style of writing that links academic debates with lived realities while offering hope and practical suggestions for improving gender equality in tourism.

Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment, a critical gendered analysis that questions the extent to which tourism brings women empowerment, is an engaging and thought-provoking read for students, researchers and practitioners in the areas of tourism, gender studies, development and anthropology.

Autor

i is a senior lecturer in Tourism Geography at the University of the West of England. Stroma combines her academic career with action research and consultancy, most recently looking at tourism and water rights in Indonesia. She is a director of Equality in Tourism and was the Chair of Tourism Concern (2006-2012). Stroma is an activist researcher critiquing the consequences of tourism development.

Rezensionen

The book provides a convincing and informed argument for development agencies to rethink their approach to tourism as a development tool. Now that the components of empowerment have been so clearly articulated, much more needs to be done to work with both women and men to leverage tourism as a force to improve gender equality.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.7.2018
• Co-Autor: Lucy Ferguson, Daniela Moreno Alarcón, Carlos Costa, Marília Durão, Zélia Breda, Fiona Eva Bakas, Paola Vizcaino-Suárez, Belén Martínez Caparrós, Meghan Muldoon, Wendy Wendy, Kylie Radel, Heather Jeffrey, Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión, Hazel Tucker, Inês Carvalho
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-78639-444-8 / 1786394448
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78639-444-6 / 9781786394446