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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction – Travel and Tropical Romance: Understanding Caribbean Tourism through Gender
Chapter 1 – "Just on the Edge of Adventure:" Women Explorers, Social Science, and the Caribbean’s "Rich, Unexplored Field" (1910s–1920s)
Chapter 2 – Timeless Playgrounds in an "Endless June:" Women and the Travel Infrastructures of the 1910s–1930s
Chapter 3 – "The Fraternity Who Love the Islands:" Tourism Development and the Scripting of Caribbean Culture (1925–1945)
Chapter 4 – Creating "Caribbean Vacationlands:" Concocting the Cultured Tropicalities of Post-War Travel (1945–1960)
Chapter 5 – A "Rich and Cosmopolitan Past:" Women and the Solidification of Island Romance (1960–1980)
Conclusion – Building Something Different?
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preface vii
Introduction Travel and Tropical Romance:
Understanding Caribbean
Tourism
through Gender 1
1 “Just on the Edge of Adventure”: Women
Explorers,
Social Science, and the Caribbean’s
“Rich,
Unexplored Field” (1910s–1920s) 16
2 Timeless Playgrounds in an “Endless June”: Women
and the Travel Infrastructures of the Interwar
Caribbean
(1910s–1930s) 37
3 “The Fraternity Who Love the Islands”: Tourism
Development and the Scripting of Caribbean
Culture (1925–1945) 59
4 Creating “Caribbean
Vacationlands”: Concocting
the Cultured Tropicalities of Postwar
Travel (1945–1960) 82
5 A “Rich and Cosmopolitan Past”:
Women
and the Solidification of Island
Romance (1960–1980) 104
Conclusion Building Something Different?
127
Acknowledgments
139
Notes 143
Bibliography 181
Index 000
Über den Autor / die Autorin
ELIZABETH S. MANLEY is the Kellogg Endowed Professor of History at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. She is the author of
The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and Authoritarian Politics in the Dominican Republic and coauthor of
Cien Años de Feminismos Dominicanos with Ginetta Candelario and April Mayes.
