Gender, Sexuality and National Identity in the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain: Chasing the Rainbow

ISBN-13: 9780367651732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 184 str.

UK) Dixon Laura (Liverpool John Moores University

Opis

This book takes an intimate look at the lives of British migrants in Sitges, an affluent coastal tourist town in Northern Spain and investigates ideas of gender, sexuality and national identity as they are brought to life through the voices of British lifestyle migrants.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter One Setting the Scene - Sitges and Cosmopolitanism; Chapter Two A history of tourism in Britain and Spain; Chapter Three Living Between Expectation and Reality; Chapter Four Sitges and Lifestyle Migration; Chapter Five Authenticity and Identity - becoming who you are in Sitges; Chapter Six Escaping from Ties that Bind and Other Contradictions; Chapter Seven Political Theories of Recognition; Chapter Eight The Revaluation of Homosexuality and the Cross-Gendered Paradigm; Chapter Nine The Heterosexual Matrix; Chapter Ten Women, Lesbians, and Authenticity – an extended interview; Chapter Eleven ‘Heterolesbianism’ and Pornography; Chapter Twelve Sitges Pride; a Case Study; Chapter Thirteen Heterolesbianism as Hypersexualisation; Conclusion;