Elizabeth Manley

Imagining the Tropics

Women, Romance, and the Making of Modern Tourism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978826908
• ISBN-10: 1978826907
• Artikelnr.: 71937590

Autorenporträt

ELIZABETH MANLEY is the Kellogg Endowed Professor of History at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. She is the author of The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and Authoritarian Politics in the Dominican Republic and coauthor of Cien Años de Feminismos Dominicanos with Ginetta Candelario and April Mayes. 

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction – Travel and Tropical Romance: Understanding Caribbean Tourism
through Gender
Chapter 1 – "Just on the Edge of Adventure:" Women Explorers, Social
Science, and the Caribbean’s "Rich, Unexplored Field" (1910s–1920s)
Chapter 2 – Timeless Playgrounds in an "Endless June:" Women and the Travel
Infrastructures of the 1910s–1930s
Chapter 3 – "The Fraternity Who Love the Islands:" Tourism Development and
the Scripting of Caribbean Culture (1925–1945)
Chapter 4 – Creating "Caribbean Vacationlands:" Concocting the Cultured
Tropicalities of Post-War Travel (1945–1960)
Chapter 5 – A "Rich and Cosmopolitan Past:" Women and the Solidification of
Island Romance (1960–1980)
Conclusion – Building Something Different?
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index