Chilling out in 'cosmopolitan country': Urban/rural hybridity and the construction of daylesford as a 'lesbian and gay rural idyll'

Journal of Rural Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-79

  Gorman Murray, Andrew ^a   Waitt, Gordon ^b   Gibson, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Daylesford; Festivals; Lesbian and gay tourism; Rural idylls; Urban rural binary; Urban rural hybridity

Indexed keywords

FESTIVAL; GENDER ISSUE; GENDER ROLE; LITERATURE REVIEW; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; TOURISM; URBAN AREA;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84855222939     PISSN: 07430167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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