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Feminist and gender perspectives in tourism studies

Feminist and gender perspectives in tourism studies This article calls for a pause for reflection on the theoretical trajectory offeminist and gender research in tourism studies. It offers a critical appraisal ofthe origins, development and contemporary application of the three epistemologicalapproaches of feminist empiricism, standpoint feminism and poststructural feminism.Although each of these broad perspectives has served to shape our multipleunderstandings of the relationships between gender and tourism they may also,simultaneously and inadvertently, have served to fracture the coherence of genderand tourism as a sub-discipline within tourism studies. The article suggests that todisembody that which is not yet fully formed runs the risk of aborting rather thannurturing the embryonic project of advancing feminist and gender tourism studies.Thus, while acknowledging the positive influence of the ‘culturalturn’ within feminist and gender studies of tourism, the article cautionsagainst the wholesale adoption of poststructural approaches to the neglect ofprevious material analyses. Thus, the case is made for developing synergy betweenthese two seemingly oppositional perspectives and the social-cultural nexus isintroduced as a conceptual framework within which to explore the mutually informingnature of the social and the cultural in shaping both materialities and relations ofgender and tourism. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tourist Studies: An International Journal SAGE

Feminist and gender perspectives in tourism studies

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1468-7976
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Abstract

This article calls for a pause for reflection on the theoretical trajectory offeminist and gender research in tourism studies. It offers a critical appraisal ofthe origins, development and contemporary application of the three epistemologicalapproaches of feminist empiricism, standpoint feminism and poststructural feminism.Although each of these broad perspectives has served to shape our multipleunderstandings of the relationships between gender and tourism they may also,simultaneously and inadvertently, have served to fracture the coherence of genderand tourism as a sub-discipline within tourism studies. The article suggests that todisembody that which is not yet fully formed runs the risk of aborting rather thannurturing the embryonic project of advancing feminist and gender tourism studies.Thus, while acknowledging the positive influence of the ‘culturalturn’ within feminist and gender studies of tourism, the article cautionsagainst the wholesale adoption of poststructural approaches to the neglect ofprevious material analyses. Thus, the case is made for developing synergy betweenthese two seemingly oppositional perspectives and the social-cultural nexus isintroduced as a conceptual framework within which to explore the mutually informingnature of the social and the cultural in shaping both materialities and relations ofgender and tourism.

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Tourist Studies: An International Journal – SAGE

Published: Dec 1, 2005

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