Feminist and gender perspectives in tourism studies: The social-cultural nexus of critical and cultural theories

Tourist Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 207-224

  Aitchison, Cara Carmichael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

critical tourism studies; feminism; feminist geography; gender; social cultural nexus; cultural turn

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750206494     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797605070330     Document Type: Article

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