Queering Tourism : Paradoxical Performances of Gay Pride Parades

ISBN-13: 9780415482103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 158 str.

Johnston Lynda

Opis

Examining the intersection of sexuality, space and tourism, and using empirical data gathered at gay pride parades, this important work considers how the queered spaces of these parades may prompt new understandings of power and tourism.

Recenzje

'Johnston's books is an extremely credible addition to the present gay and lesbian scholarship.  It provides an excellent, critical review of politics and performances at gay Pride parades, written with clarity of style'. - Neil Michael Walsh, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

Spis treści

List of Figures.  Acknowledgements  1. Proud Beginnings  2. Queer(y)ing Tourism Knowledges  3. Bodies: Camped up Performances  4. Street Scenes: Tourism with(out) Borders  5. Sex in the Suburbs or the CBD?  6. Cities as Sexualised Sites of Queer Consumption  7. Paradoxical Endings

O autorze

Lynda Johnston is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her research focuses on social/cultural and feminist geography, critical social theory and tourism.