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Author: Jessica Jacobs ,
Professor Dimitri Ioannides
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Weight: 0.440kg
ISBN: 9780754647881
ISBN 10: 0754647889
Pages: 154
Publication Date: 10 November 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Undergraduate
,
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'This book will appeal to anyone who has ever fancied the waiter on vacation. Shifting attention from male to female sex tourists, and from sex itself to the wider context of sexualised tourism and tourist geographies, it also makes a serious and provocative intervention in debates about sexuality, gender and imperialism.' Richard Phillips, University of Liverpool UK. 'Carefully researched and thoughtfully written, Jacobs offers a rich analysis of the complexities and contradictions underlying tourist encounters between European women and ""local"" men in the Sinai. While postcolonial tourism has generated no shortage of theoretical speculation, this book succeeds by actually conveying the voices of women and men, tourists and locals, ""moderns"" and ""non-moderns"" as they reflect upon their encounters with Oriental and Occidental ""others"".' Tim Oakes, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA 'This is a lucid account of tourism and draws usefully upon postcolonial understandings of the historical-socio-economic web that exists between ""the West and the Rest"" to understand the intricate relationships between European women and Egyptian men. Jacobs offers a salutary reminder that the longing to ""lose oneself"" is always problematic and never neutral, and that the desire ""to leave the hell of work to a paradise of leisure"" is always freighted with historical-socio-cultural resonances.' Times Higher Education
'This book will appeal to anyone who has ever fancied the waiter on vacation. Shifting attention from male to female sex tourists, and from sex itself to the wider context of sexualised tourism and tourist geographies, it also makes a serious and provocative intervention in debates about sexuality, gender and imperialism.' Richard Phillips, University of Liverpool UK. 'Carefully researched and thoughtfully written, Jacobs offers a rich analysis of the complexities and contradictions underlying tourist encounters between European women and local men in the Sinai. While postcolonial tourism has generated no shortage of theoretical speculation, this book succeeds by actually conveying the voices of women and men, tourists and locals, moderns and non-moderns as they reflect upon their encounters with Oriental and Occidental others .' Tim Oakes, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA 'This is a lucid account of tourism and draws usefully upon postcolonial understandings of the historical-socio-economic web that exists between the West and the Rest to understand the intricate relationships between European women and Egyptian men. Jacobs offers a salutary reminder that the longing to lose oneself is always problematic and never neutral, and that the desire to leave the hell of work to a paradise of leisure is always freighted with historical-socio-cultural resonances.' Times Higher Education
Author Information
Jessica Jacobs, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
