Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism

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