Troubling romance tourism: Sex, gender and class inside the Argentinean tango clubs

Feminist Review

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-40

  Törnqvist, Maria ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Argentina; gender; intimacy; romance tourism; social class; tango dancing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867723801     PISSN: 01417789     EISSN: 14664380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/fr.2012.12     Document Type: Review

References (41)

1. Archetti, E.P. (1999) Masculinities. Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina, Oxford: Berg.
2. Bales, K. (2003) 'Because she looks like a child' in Ehrenreich, B. and Hochschild, A. (2003) editors, Global Woman. Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy, New York: Metropolitan Books.
3. Bernstein, E. (2001) 'The meaning of the purchase: desire, demand and the commerce of sex' Ethnography, Vol. 2, No. 3: 389-420.
4. Bernstein, E. (2007) Temporarily Yours. Sexual Commerce in Post-Industrial Culture, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
5. Cohen, E. (2003) 'Transnational marriage in Thailand. The dynamics of extreme heterogamy' in Bauer, T. and McKercher, B. (2003) editors, Sex and Tourism. Journeys of Romance, Love and Lust, New York: Haworth Press.
6. Ebron, P. (1997) 'Traffic in men' in Grosz-Ngaté, M. and Kokole, O. (1997) editors, Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa, New York: Routledge.
7. Ehrenreich, B. and Hochschild, A.R. (2003) Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, New York: Metropolitan Books.
8. Fiszbein, A., Giovagnoli, P. and Aduriz, I. (2002) 'Argentina's crisis and its impact on household welfare' in Argentina Poverty Update, Washington D.C.: The World Bank.
9. Guy, D.J. (1995) Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires. Prostitution, Family and Nation in Argentina, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
10. Herold, E., Garcia, R. and DeMoya, T. (2001) 'Female tourists and beach boys. Romance or sex tourism?' Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 28, No. 4: 978-997.
11. Hochschild, A. (1983/2003) The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
12. Holm, B. (2004) Pardans, Stockholm: Bonnier förlag.
13. Jamieson, L. (1998) Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies, Cambridge: Polity Press.
14. Jeffreys, S. (2003) 'Sex tourism: do women do it too?' Leisure Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3: 223-238.
15. Kempadoo, K. (1999) editor, Sun, Sex, and Gold. Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
16. Kempadoo, K. (2001) 'Freelancers, temporary wives, and beach-boys. Researching sex work in the Caribbean' Feminist Review, Issue 67: 39-62.
17. Manning, E. (2003) 'Negotiating influence. Argentinean tango and a politics of touch' Borderlands, Vol. 2, No. 1. e-journal.
18. Meisch, L.A. (1995) 'Gringas and otavaleños. Changing tourist relations' Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 22, Issue 2: 441-462.
19. Mohanty, C.T. (2003) Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, Durham: Duke University Press.
20. Nagel, J. (2003) Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality. Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
21. O'Connell Davidson, J. (1995) 'British sex tourists in Thailand' in Maynard, M. and Purvis, J. (1995) editors, (Hetero)sexual, Politics: London: Taylor & Francis.
22. O'Connell Davidson, J. and Sanchez Taylor, J. (2005) 'Travel and taboo: heterosexual sex tourism to the Caribbean' in Schaffner, L. and Bernstein, E. (2005) editors, Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity, London: Routledge.
23. Olszewski, B. (2008) 'El Cuerpo del Baile: the kinetic and social fundaments of tango' Body & Society, Vol. 14, No. 2: 63-81.
24. Ottawa Citizen (2007) 'Sex tourism: when women do it, it's called "romance travelling"' 27 January.
25. Palmer, M. (2006) Kiss & Tango. Diary of a Dance-Hall Seductress, New York: Harper Collins Publishers.
26. Plummer, K. (2003) Intimate Citizenship. Private Decisions and Public Dialogues, Seattle: University of Washington Press.
27. Pruitt, D. and LaFont, S. (1995) 'For love and money. Romance tourism in Jamaica' Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 22, No. 2: 422-440.
28. Rivero, C. (2004) Argentinsk tango. Berättelser fra°n queertangoscenen, Uppsats pa°byggnadskurs i genusvetenskap Stockholm: Stockholms universitet.
29. Said, E.W. (1995) Orientalism. Western Conceptions of the Orient, London: Penguin.
30. Savigliano, M.E. (1995a) Tango and the Political Economy of Passion, Boulder: Westview.
31. Savigliano, M.E. (1995b) 'Whiny Ruffians and rebellious broads: tango as a spectacle of eroticized social tension' Theatre Journal, Vol. 47, No. 1: 83-104.
32. Segal, L. (1997) 'Competing masculinitites: black masculinity and the white man's black man' in Segal, L. (1997) editor, Slow Motion: Changing Men Changing Masculinities, London: Virago.
33. Skeggs, B. (1997) Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable, London: Sage.
34. Skeggs, B. (2005) 'The making of class and gender through visualizing moral subjects formation' Sociology, Vol. 39, No. 5: 965-982.
35. Taylor, S.J. (2006) 'Female sex tourism: a contradiction in terms?' Feminist Review, Issue 83: 42-59.
36. Törnqvist, M. and Hardy, K. (2010) 'Taxi dancers. Tango labour and commercialized intimacy in Buenos Aires' in Hardy, K., Kingston, S. and Sanders, T. (2010) editors, New Sociologies of Sex Work, Surrey: Ashgate.
37. Truong, C. (1990) Sex, Money and Morality: Prostitution and Tourism in Southeast Asia, London: Zed Books.
38. Ware, V. (1997) 'Purity and danger: race, gender and tales of sex tourism' in McRobbie, A. (1997) editor, Back to Reality? Social Experience and Cultural Studies, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
39. Whitson, R. (2007) 'Beyond the crisis: economic globalization and informal work in urban Argentina' Journal of Latin American Geography, Vol. 6, No. 2: 121-136.
40. Wolkowiz, C. (2006) Bodies at Work, London: Sage.
41. Zelizer, V. (2005) The Purchase of Intimacy, Princeton: Princeton University Press.