The holiday meal: Eating out alone and mobile emotional geographies

Leisure Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 175-192

  Heimtun, Bente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Gender; Midlife singlehood; Power relations; Social capital; Tourism

Indexed keywords

FEMINISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; TOURISM; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; WOMENS STATUS;

NORWAY;

EID: 77951104944     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: 14664496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02614360903261495     Document Type: Article

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