Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences)

Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism draws together established and emerging academics that have a key interest in men, masculinity, travel and tourism. Through the chapters collected in this volume the reader will be exposed to cutting edge research and writing that offer global and local perspectives within these fields. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Masculinity, Tourism and Adventure in English Nineteenth-Century Travel Fiction....Pages 13-27 Heroes and Villains: Travel, Risk and Masculinity....Pages 28-42 ‘Just Blokes Doing Blokes’ Stuff’: Risk, Gender and the Collective Performance of Masculinity during the Eastern European Stag Tour Weekend....Pages 43-57 Masculinity and the Gay Games: A Consideration of Hegemonic and Queer Debates....Pages 58-72 Front Matter....Pages 73-73 Working-Class Men’s Masculinities on the Spanish Costas: Watching ITV’s Benidorm ....Pages 75-88 ‘You Get a Reputation If You’re from the Valleys’: The Stigmatisation of Place in Young Working-Class Men’s Lives....Pages 89-103 ‘I Don’t Want to Think I Am a Prostitute’: Embodied Geographies of Men, Masculinities and Clubbing in Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia....Pages 104-119 Ephemeral Masculinities? Tracking Men, Partners and Fathers in the Geography of Family Holidays....Pages 120-138 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Taiwanese Men’s Wife-Finding Tours in Southeast Asian Countries and China....Pages 141-155 Risky Business: How Gender, Race, and Culture Influence the Culture of Risk-Taking among Sex Tourists....Pages 156-170 Recognising Homoeroticism in Male Gay Tourism: A Mexican Perspective....Pages 171-185 Front Matter....Pages 187-187 The Lads Just Playing Away: An Ethnography with England’s Hooligan Fringe during the 2006 World Cup....Pages 189-203 What is Old and What is New? Representations of Masculinity in Travel Brochures....Pages 204-218 Afterword: Men’s Touristic Practices: How Men Think They’re Men and Know Their Place....Pages 219-229 Back Matter....Pages 231-234 Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Notes on Contributors 8 1 Introduction 14 Part I Hegemonic Masculinity, Travel and Tourism 24 2 Masculinity, Tourism and Adventure in English Nineteenth-Century Travel Fiction 25 3 Heroes and Villains: Travel, Risk and Masculinity 40 4 ‘Just Blokes Doing Blokes’ Stuff’: Risk, Gender and the Collective Performance of Masculinity during the Eastern European Stag Tour Weekend 55 5 Masculinity and the Gay Games: A Consideration of Hegemonic and Queer Debates 70 Part II Masculinities, Tourism and Identity 85 6 Working-Class Men’s Masculinities on the Spanish Costas : Watching ITV’s Benidorm 86 7 ‘You Get a Reputation If You’re from the Valleys’: The Stigmatisation of Place in Young Working-Class Men’s Lives 100 8 ‘I Don’t Want to Think I Am a Prostitute’: Embodied Geographies of Men, Masculinities and Clubbing in Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia 115 9 Ephemeral Masculinities? Tracking Men, Partners and Fathers in the Geography of Family Holidays 131 Part III Sex, Sexuality, Tourism and Masculinity 150 10 Taiwanese Men’s Wife-Finding Tours in Southeast Asian Countries and China 151 11 Risky Business: How Gender, Race, and Culture Influence the Culture of Risk-Taking among Sex Tourists 166 12 Recognising Homoeroticism in Male Gay Tourism: A Mexican Perspective 181 Part IV Embodying Masculine Travel 196 13 The Lads Just Playing Away: An Ethnography with England’s Hooligan Fringe during the 2006 World Cup 197 14 What Is Old and What Is New? Representations of Masculinity in Travel Brochures 212 15 Afterword: Men’s Touristic Practices: How Men Think They’re Men and Know Their Place 227 Index 238 This volume brings together established and emerging writers concerned with men's global mobilities and their experiences of and within travel and tourism. Although there is existing work that has focused on gender and tourism, the emphasis on men, masculinities and tourism has been rather limited. While the implicit masculine position of the tourist gaze has been questioned, understandings of specific male tourists have often failed to engage with the gendered notions of independence, adventure, embodiment and 'risk' that underpin much tourism experience and practice. The authors gathered here draw upon a pool of experience and research. In particular, the collection reflects the multiple ways that men 'do' masculinity as they travel and interact with other men or women. The volume offers insights into men's tourism from as far afield as Mexico, the US, China, Taiwan, western and eastern Europe, and more localized identities in the UK