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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
About the author
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.
