Thinking Tourism through a Gender Perspective
Contributions, Challenges, and Horizons from the Routledge Handbook on Gender in Tourism
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The Routledge Handbook on Gender in Tourism: Views on Teaching, Research and Praxis, edited by Magdalena Petronella Swart, Wenjie Cai, Elaine Chiao Ling Yang, and Albert Nsom Kimbu, published in 2024, establishes itself as a fundamental contribution to an emerging and rapidly expanding field of study. This review highlights how the volume, structured in six parts with contributions from authors in sixteen countries, brings together research on the role of gender in key dimensions of tourism, such as education, work, mobility, and entrepreneurship. Its intersectional approach and its alignment with the contemporary feminist agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals are emphasized. While it celebrates its theoretical-methodological rigor and plurality of perspectives, the review also critically points out the paradox that a handbook analyzing structural inequalities is economically inaccessible to many academic audiences in the Global South. The work is presented as a framework, a collective effort that, while mapping the state of the art, opens productive avenues for future research.
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