Sometimes a good discussion requires, at its beginning, the establishment
of a framework or discursive boundaries. I think that's what's going on
here and I hope it will continue so we can settle into the issues. Let's
not get skittish here. People like me, who've never made gender a research
focus, have much to learn from those of you who have. I'm reminded that
when I first worked in a poor white community, my focus was on the human
community/landscape relationship, but the subject of race simply would not
be ignored in spite of my research design. I find the same to be true of
gender. I really planned to examine how tourism affects human/ecosystem
relationships, but, having established the household as my unit of
analysis, gender keeps leaping out of the woodwork and insisting I pay
attention to it. So, please, take pity on those of us who admit our
naivete and carry on with the discussions from which we can learn. Thanks
again to Neil for kicking off the conversation.
Best wishes,
Jane Gibson
>I don't think the gender and tourism debate had been talking solely about
>tourism and the sex trade, in fact I think it had covered a wide rather of
>gendered and sexual/sexuality oriented issues. However, if the opposite
>appears to have been the case then I apologize
>
>Cheers
>
>Neil
>
>
>Dr Neil Carr
>Lecturer in Tourism Management
>University of Queensland
>11 Salisbury Road
>Ipswich
>Qld 4305
>Australia
>Tel (07) 33811319
>E-mail [log in to unmask]
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>Owner of tourismanthropology discussion group
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Nelson Graburn <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Neil Carr <[log in to unmask]>;
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>Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 7:54 AM
>Subject: Gender in Tourism
>
>
>>
>> I quite agree with Cyril Belshaw that the topic of "Gender in Tourism"
>> should go far beyond, indeed should not be centered around "sex tourism."
>>
>> A few years ago a student, Carla M. Dole, in my undergraduate course
>> Anthropology of Tourism (Anthropology 151 at the University of California,
>> Berkeley), asked to do her research term paper on tourism for women or
>> women only tourism. She had worked as a travel agent so had some very good
>> contacts and wrote a quite creditable term paper.
>>
>> I encouraged her to continue with the topic, and the next thing I knew was
>> that in 1996, with a woman partner, she had started a very substantial
>> USA-wide quarterly journal on and for the topic, MAIDEN VOYAGES [ISSN:
>> 1086-1330]. I believe that the venture faltered after a few years because
>> of a financial difference of opinion between the two publishers. The
>domain
>> name: www.maidenvoyages.com had been re-registered by someone else by the
>> year 2,000.
>>
>> We need more students like this!
>>
>> Nelson Graburn
>> Professor of Anthropology
>> U. C. Berkeley.
>>
>>
Jane W. Gibson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
785-864-2635
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