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Tourism gender research: A critical accounting

Cristina Figueroa-Domecq, Annette Pritchard, Mónica Segovia-Pérez, Nigel Morgan Orcid Logo, Teresa Villacé-Molinero

Annals of Tourism Research, Volume: 52, Pages: 87 - 103

Swansea University Author: Nigel Morgan Orcid Logo

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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 c...

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Published in: Annals of Tourism Research
ISSN: 01607383
Published: 2015
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa32690
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Abstract: 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.
Keywords: bibliometric analysis; citation; knowledge; epistemology; women; feminism.
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Start Page: 87
End Page: 103