GEN&SEX 50B Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Lightweight Rowing, Selimiye Barracks, Mary Seacole
20 Jun 2018
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Section 19: Travel and Tourism
Reading A: On the Beach – Sexism and Tourism
(Cynthia Enloe)
- Women in many countries are in unequal relationships with each other as a result of governments’ sponsorship of
the international tourist industry
Women play active roles in expanding and shaping the tourist industry as travel agents, travel writers,
flight attendants, craftswomen, chambermaids
- Women who travel are not just privileged, they have had to fight against constraints of presumptions of feminine
respectability to travel away from home
- Tourism is infused with masculine ideas and deemed private and not talked about in international politics
Footloose and Gendered
- Being feminine defined as being close to home ; masculinity means to travel
- A woman who travels is not respectable
Risks losing her honor or blamed for harm she faces during travel
- Women lured into joining the military by thoughts of leaving home
- Victorian lady travelers:
White middle classes of North America and Europe
Went to places that were considered “uncivilized” and “uncharted”
Wanted adventure
Viewed with suspicion because they traveled long ways without male protection
- Mary Kingsley:
Went on several expeditions to Africa
- Many women travelers helped finance their travels by giving public lectures
Lecturer and audience helped create a British culture of imperialism
Audience developed a sense of imperial pride as they heard someone else describe their travels
Package Tours for the Respectable Woman
- Tourism is a package of ideas about industrial, bureaucratic life
Set of presumptions about manhood, education, pleasure
- Women are equated to the exotic
To men, women are to be experienced
- Thomas Cook:
Created package tours
Made traveling safe for the respectable woman tourist
The Tourism Formula for Development
- Tourism means that government is willing to meet the expectation of foreigners who want political stability,
safety, congeniality when they travel
- Tourism today, is promoted as an industry that can turn poor countries; poverty into profit
Alternative to one-commodity dependency from colonial rule
- Reality: tourism is creating a dependency for poor nations
Officials in these countries hope that tourism will get their countries out of debt
Conclusion
- Government and corporate officials depend on international travel for pleasure in several ways:
See tourism as an industry that can diversify local economies that rely on one or two products for export
Expect tourism to provide them with foreign currency
Tourism development is touted as a way to spur general social development
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Document Summary
Reading a: on the beach sexism and tourism (cynthia enloe) Women in many countries are in unequal relationships with each other as a result of governments" sponsorship of the international tourist industry. Women play active roles in expanding and shaping the tourist industry as travel agents, travel writers, flight attendants, craftswomen, chambermaids. Women who travel are not just privileged, they have had to fight against constraints of presumptions of feminine respectability to travel away from home. Tourism is infused with masculine ideas and deemed private and not talked about in international politics. Being feminine defined as being close to home ; masculinity means to travel. Risks losing her honor or blamed for harm she faces during travel. Women lured into joining the military by thoughts of leaving home. White middle classes of north america and europe. Went to places that were considered uncivilized and uncharted . Viewed with suspicion because they traveled long ways without male protection.
