Asian Genders in Tourism

Informationen zum Autor Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore is Senior Lecturer at Griffith University, Australia and her research interests include tourist and guest behaviour, with a passionate focus on women, families and young children. Paolo Mura is Senior Lecturer at Taylor's University, Malaysia and his research interests focus on tourist behaviour, gender, young tourists, deviant behaviour on holiday and ethnographic approaches to research. Klappentext This book is the first to explore Asian gendered identities and tourism from both Asian and Western perspectives. The authors reflect on the role of tourism in producing, reiterating and resisting existing gendered structures of power in Asia and on their own experiences of understanding and negotiating Western and Asian identities and practices.This book is the first to explore Asian gendered identities and tourism from both Asian and Western perspectives. The authors reflect on the role of tourism in producing, reiterating and resisting existing gendered structures of power in Asia and on their own experiences of understanding and negotiating Western and Asian identities and practices.

Product details

• Authors: Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore, Paolo Mura
• Assisted by: Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore (Editor), Paolo Mura (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781845415785
• ISBN: 978-1-84541-578-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Aspects of Tourism; Aspects of Tourism
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous