Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- 1. Editors' Introduction: Tourism, Gender, Embodiment and Experience -- 2. The Body in Tourism Industry -- 3. Ambivalent Journeys: Writing Travel as the Feminist Stranger in Desert Places -- 4. Travelling for Masculinity: The Construction of Bodies/Spaces in Israeli Backpackers' Narratives -- 5. The Emergence of the Body in the Holiday Accounts of Women and Girls -- 6. Life's a Beach and then We Diet: Discourses of Tourism and the 'Beach Body' in UK Women's Lifestyle Magazines -- 7. The Sensual Embodiment of Italian Women -- 8. Bodies, Carnival and Honey Days: The Example of Coney Island -- 9. The Embodiment of the Macho Gaze in South-eastern Europe: Performing Femininity and Masculinity in Albania and Croatia -- 10. Encountering Scopophilia, Sensuality and Desire: Engendering Tahiti -- 11. Gendered Tourism Space: A South African Perspective -- 12. Advertisements as Tourism Space: 'Learning' Masculinity and Femininity from New Zealand Television -- 13. Gender Posed: The People Behind the Postcards -- 14. Travelling Beyond the Boundaries of Constraint: Women, Travel and Empowerment -- 15. An Israeli Lesbian's Travel Experience: A Heterosexual Man's Interpretation of Her Diary -- 16. Embodying Everyday Masculinities in Heritage Tourism(s) -- 17. In Search of Lesbian Space? The Experience of Manchester's Gay Village -- 18. (Un)veiling Women's Employment in the Egyptian Travel Business -- 19. Gender and Tourism Development: A Case Study of the Cappadoccia Region of Turkey -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T.