Red Riviera - Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea

Informationen zum Autor Kristen Ghodsee is the John S. Osterwies Associate Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College. Klappentext A study of the changes in women's roles in postcommunist Bulgarian society and the workplace, focusing on the tourism industry. Zusammenfassung Challenging the idea that women have fared worse than men in Eastern Europe's transition from socialism to a market economy! this is an ethnography of women working in Bulgaria's popular sea and ski resorts. It explains how women working in the industry have successfully negotiated their way through Bulgaria's capitalist transformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Shattered Windows, Broken Lives 21 2. Making Mitko Tall 43 3. The Red Riviera 76 4. To the Wolves: Tourism and Economic Transformation 115 5. Feminism-by-Design 151 Appendix A: Tables 175 Appendix B: Formal Interviews 182 Notes 189 Glossary 209 Selected Bibliography 211 Index 223

Product details

• Authors: Ghodsee, Kristen Ghodsee, Kristen Ghodsee
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2005
• EAN: 9780822336501
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3650-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics