Femininities in the field : tourism and transdisciplinary research / edited by Brooke A. Porter and Heike A. Schänzel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Safety first: the biases of gender and precaution in fieldwork / Jill Hamilton & Russell Fielding -- Negotiating machismo as a female researcher and volunteer tourist in Cusco, Peru / Jane Godfrey & Stephen Wearing -- The married life (as a marine tourism researcher) / Shannon Switzer Swanson -- "Dale chica!": a surfer chick's reflections on field research in Central America / Lindsay E. Usher -- Early motherhood and research in the Philippines: from bump to baby in the field / Brooke A. Porter -- 'Mummy, when are we getting to the fields?' doing fieldwork with three children / Anonia Canosa -- The dissemination of the feminine: an in-depth analysis of independent travel / Gisele Carvalho -- Gender bias and marine mammal tourism research / Emmanuell Martinez & Catherine Peters -- The effect of motherhood on tourism fieldwork with young children: an autoethnographic approach / Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore -- Subjectivities implode: when 'the lone male' ethnographer is actually nursing mother / Lisa Cooke -- Icebreaker: experiences of conducting fieldwork in Arctic Canada with my infant son / Emma J. Stewart -- Researching in a men's paradise: the emotional negotiations of drunken tourism fieldwork / Ana Maria Muñar -- Motherhood within family tourism research: case studies in New Zealand and Samoa / Heike A. Schänzel.

"The aim of this book is to reflect on the effect of femininities in the field and the encountered biases specific to women researchers. The global case studies cover access, attire/conduct, sexual harassment, personal safety, and accompanied research/well-being. The volume is an essential guide for supervisors, students and researchers"-- Provided by publisher.