Queering tourism [[electronic resource] ] : paradoxical performances at gay pride parades / / Lynda Johnston

• Autore: Johnston Lynda <1964->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (161 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.76/6
• Soggetto topico: Gay pride parades; Gay Pride Day; Gay men; Gay men - Travel; Lesbians; Lesbians - Travel; Homosexuality
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [128]-139) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Half Title: Queering Tourism; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Proud beginnings; 2 Queer(y)ing tourism knowledges; 3 Bodies; 4 Street scenes; 5 Sex in the suburbs or the CBD?; 6 Cities as sites of queer consumption; 7 Paradoxical endings; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated.From Sydney to Rome, Queering Tourism analyses the paradoxes of gay pride parades as tourist events, exploring how the public display of queer bodies - the way they look, what they do, who watches them, and under what regulations - is profoundly important in constructing sexualized subjectivities of bodies and cities. Drawing on extensive collections of interviews, visuals and written media accounts, photographs, advertisement
• Titolo autorizzato: Queering tourism
• ISBN: 1-134-42914-2; 1-281-15788-0; 9786611157883; 0-203-96380-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784829203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in human geography ; ; 11.