Tourism gender research: A critical accounting

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Figueroa-Domecq, Cristina
Pritchard, Annette
Segovia-Perez, Monica
Morgan, Nigel
Villace-Molinero, Teresa
Date
2015Type
Article
Publisher
Elsevier
ISSN
0160-7383
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This paper seeks to rouse debate about the workings of tourism enquiry as a knowledge-generating system through its critical accounting of the sub-field of tourism gender research. This accounting includes a gender-aware bibliometric analysis of 466 journal papers published during 1985–2012, which categorises the sub-field’s prevailing themes and methodologies and identifies its most prolific authors and popular journals. It contends that, despite three decades of study and a recent increase in papers, tourism gender research remains marginal to tourism enquiry, disarticulated from wider feminist and gender-aware initiatives and lacks the critical mass of research leaders, publications, citations and multi-institutional networks, which characterise other tourism sub-fields. The paper identifies two possible futures for gender-aware tourism research: stagnation or ignition.
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Annals of Tourism Research
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Figueroa-Domecq, C., Pritchard, A., Segovia-Pérez, M., Morgan, N. and Villacé-Molinero, T. (2015) 'Tourism and Gender Research: A Critical Accounting', Annals of Tourism Research, 52, pp 87-103
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This article was published in Annals of Tourism Research on 22nd March 2015 available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2015.02.001
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