Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean: Paradise for Sale
Author:   Karen Wilkes
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
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9781137503909


Pages:   239
Publication Date:   19 August 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Karen Wilkes
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.457kg
ISBN:  

9781137503909


ISBN 10:   1137503904
Pages:   239
Publication Date:   19 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction.- Chapter 1 Using Intersectionality to Challenge Visual Myths of Paradise.- Chapter 2 White Masculine Voices and their Construction of the Dark-skinned Woman as Sexual Primitive.- Chapter 3 Procuring White Femininity in the Colonies.- Chapter 4 Resurrecting Colonialism: Tourism in Jamaica during the Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 5 The Postfeminist Bride and the Neoliberal White Wedding in Postcolonial Jamaica.- Chapter 6 Feted and Pampered Whiteness in a (Post)colonial Paradise.- Conclusion

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Karen Wilkes is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University, UK. Her book chapter, From the Landscape to the White Female Body, was published in the edited collection Mediating the Tourist Experience (2013). Her journal article, Colluding with Neoliberalism, was published in Feminist Review in July 2015. 

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