Book Review of Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment edited by Stroma Cole

Through the tourism sector, poor women around the world have uncovered new revenue-generating opportunities. For many development agencies, that’s a victory. But does increased income automatically lead to increased agency, autonomy, and authority, or in other words, empowerment? Gender Equality and...

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Main Authors:	Li, Wendy, Twining-Ward, Louise
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2019
Subjects:	GENDER EQUALITY TOURISM WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AGENCY INSTITUTIONS GENDER DISCRIMINATION FEMINIST THEORY GENDER NORMS FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS DIGITAL DIVIDE
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32768

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spelling	okr-10986-327682021-05-25T10:54:37Z Book Review of Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment edited by Stroma Cole Li, Wendy Twining-Ward, Louise GENDER EQUALITY TOURISM WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AGENCY INSTITUTIONS GENDER DISCRIMINATION FEMINIST THEORY GENDER NORMS FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS DIGITAL DIVIDE Through the tourism sector, poor women around the world have uncovered new revenue-generating opportunities. For many development agencies, that’s a victory. But does increased income automatically lead to increased agency, autonomy, and authority, or in other words, empowerment? Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment provides a timely and accessible examination of the extent to which work in tourism can empower women to transform unequal power relations in favour of women’s rights. Stroma Cole, the book’s editor, argues that economic empowerment is missing the point if it fails to make a lasting change in women’s agency and choices over their own lives. This book is a collection of academic papers originally prepared for a 2016 gender and tourism conference in Turkey. 2019-12-04T17:51:15Z 2019-12-04T17:51:15Z 2019-10-29 Journal Article Gender and Development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32768 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo International Finance Corporation Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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topic	GENDER EQUALITY TOURISM WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AGENCY INSTITUTIONS GENDER DISCRIMINATION FEMINIST THEORY GENDER NORMS FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS DIGITAL DIVIDE
spellingShingle	GENDER EQUALITY TOURISM WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AGENCY INSTITUTIONS GENDER DISCRIMINATION FEMINIST THEORY GENDER NORMS FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS DIGITAL DIVIDE Li, Wendy Twining-Ward, Louise Book Review of Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment edited by Stroma Cole
description	Through the tourism sector, poor women around the world have uncovered new revenue-generating opportunities. For many development agencies, that’s a victory. But does increased income automatically lead to increased agency, autonomy, and authority, or in other words, empowerment? Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment provides a timely and accessible examination of the extent to which work in tourism can empower women to transform unequal power relations in favour of women’s rights. Stroma Cole, the book’s editor, argues that economic empowerment is missing the point if it fails to make a lasting change in women’s agency and choices over their own lives. This book is a collection of academic papers originally prepared for a 2016 gender and tourism conference in Turkey.
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author	Li, Wendy Twining-Ward, Louise
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title	Book Review of Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment edited by Stroma Cole
title_short	Book Review of Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment edited by Stroma Cole
title_full	Book Review of Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment edited by Stroma Cole
title_fullStr	Book Review of Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment edited by Stroma Cole
title_full_unstemmed	Book Review of Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment edited by Stroma Cole
title_sort	book review of gender equality and tourism: beyond empowerment edited by stroma cole
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Book Review of Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment edited by Stroma Cole

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