SOSC 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sex Tourism, Maurice Ravel, Transnationalism
12 Mar 2014
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Week 5: wednesday february 5 globalization and transnational feminism. Enloe, on the beach: sexism and tourism (g&k) Portuguese women occupations weaving, making pottery, pulling in heavy fishing nets, hoeing fields, or harvesting olives. Travel is infused with masculine ideas about adventure, pleasure and the exotic, they are deemed pirate and thus kept off stage in debated about in international politics. Tourism growth is widening or narrowing the gap between rich /poor. The questions whether the foreign currency, new airstrips and hotels that come with the tourist industry really are adequate compensations for the exacerbation of racist tneisons and other problems that so often accompany tourism. In many societies being feminine has been defined as sticking close to home. Principal difference between women and men in countless societies has been the licence to travel away from a place thought of as home. Traveling women away from home without male escort is likely to be tarred with unrespectablitiy.
