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| Author(s): |
Fernanda Leão A Antonioli
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2015-01-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Adriana Gracia Piscitelli;
Guita Grin Debert;
Iara Aparecida Beleli
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| Advisor: | Adriana Gracia Piscitelli |
| Abstract | |
This investigation looks upon the presence of female foreign tourists travelling in Brazil, specially alone or without male counterparts. The objective was to understand social expressions and representations regarding gender, femininity, masculinity, corporality, sexuality, age, race, and nationality that permeate and/or restrain these women travel practices in Brazil, turning to their experiences, social profiles, and local perceptions about them. To do so, an ethnographic work -- carried out in a context of leisure and beach tourism in Trancoso-Bahia -- is presented in dialogue with considerations on female travels in the media, 19th century women travel writings, and critic readings of the social sciences production on the changes in gender patterns, sexualities, and affects in contexts of migration and tourism. Remarks on images of ¿sex tourism¿ and ambiguos readings around the possibilities of female erotic pleasure offered to this research the opportunity to complexify cultural meanings of female international tourism, from the standpoint of frequentelly inequal economies and structures of power, as it is the context of international tourism in Trancoso. Finally, this investigation indicates how travelling and tourism, in circulating historic inequalities in terms of income, cultural capital, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality can strengthen or disturb sociocultural conventions, and reposition or provoke conformations in the political economy of contemporary tourism (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/13973-9 - Voyages au féminin: gender, tourism and transnationality |
| Grantee: | Fernanda Leão Autilio Antonioli |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |