Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism [electronic resource] /
Thurnell-Read, T.editor.
Casey, M.editor.
Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism draws together established and emerging academics that have a key interest in men, masculinity, travel and tourism. Through the chapters collected in this volume the reader will be exposed to cutting edge research and writing that offer global and local perspectives within these fields.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I Hegemonic Masculinity, Travel and Tourism; 2 Masculinity, Tourism and Adventure in English Nineteenth-Century Travel Fiction; 3 Heroes and Villains: Travel, Risk and Masculinity; 4 'Just Blokes Doing Blokes' Stuff': Risk, Gender and the Collective Performance of Masculinity during the Eastern European Stag Tour Weekend; 5 Masculinity and the Gay Games: A Consideration of Hegemonic and Queer Debates; Part II Masculinities, Tourism and Identity
6 Working-Class Men's Masculinities on the Spanish Costas : Watching ITV's Benidorm7 'You Get a Reputation If You're from the Valleys': The Stigmatisation of Place in Young Working-Class Men's Lives; 8 'I Don't Want to Think I Am a Prostitute': Embodied Geographies of Men, Masculinities and Clubbing in Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia; 9 Ephemeral Masculinities? Tracking Men, Partners and Fathers in the Geography of Family Holidays; Part III Sex, Sexuality, Tourism and Masculinity; 10 Taiwanese Men's Wife-Finding Tours in Southeast Asian Countries and China
11 Risky Business: How Gender, Race, and Culture Influence the Culture of Risk-Taking among Sex Tourists12 Recognising Homoeroticism in Male Gay Tourism: A Mexican Perspective; Part IV Embodying Masculine Travel; 13 The Lads Just Playing Away: An Ethnography with England's Hooligan Fringe during the 2006 World Cup; 14 What Is Old and What Is New? Representations of Masculinity in Travel Brochures; 15 Afterword: Men's Touristic Practices: How Men Think They're Men and Know Their Place; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism draws together established and emerging academics that have a key interest in men, masculinity, travel and tourism. Through the chapters collected in this volume the reader will be exposed to cutting edge research and writing that offer global and local perspectives within these fields.
Sociology.
Culture.
Sports—Sociological aspects.
Tourism.
Management.
Popular works.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Gender Studies.
Sociology of Culture.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
Tourism Management.
Popular Science, general.
Regional and Cultural Studies.