Femininities in the Field

Brooke A. Porter is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at AUT University in New Zealand. She also serves as Scientific Adviser at Coral Triangle Conservancy and works as an Adjunct Professor at Umbra Institute, Italy. Her research interests include aquatic anthropology, marine conservation, marine tourism, social entrepreneurship tourism and voluntourism.Heike A. Schänzel is Senior Lecturer and programme leader postgraduate in International Tourism Management at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Her research interests include tourist behaviour and social experiences, children and families in tourism, and femininities and paternal masculinities in tourism research.

• Nigel Morgan and Annette Pritchard: ForewordBrooke A. Porter: PrefaceBrooke A. Porter and Heike A. Schänzel: Introduction1. Jill Hamilton and Russell Fielding: Safety First: The Biases of Gender and Precaution in Fieldwork2. Jane Godfrey and Stephen Wearing: Negotiating Machismo as a Female Researcher and Volunteer Tourist in Cusco, Peru3. Shannon Switzer Swanson: The Married Life (as a Marine Tourism Researcher)4. Lindsay E. Usher: "Dale Chica!": A Surfer Chick's Reflections on Field Research in Central America5. Brooke A. Porter: Early Motherhood and Research in the Philippines: From Bump to Baby in the Field6. Antonia Canosa: 'Mummy, When are We Getting to the Fields?' Doing Fieldwork with Three Children7. Gisele Carvalho: The Dissemination of the Feminine: An In-depth Analysis of Independent Travel8. Emmanuelle Martinez and Catherine Peters: Gender Bias and Marine Mammal Tourism Research9. Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore: The Effect of Motherhood on Tourism Fieldwork with Young Children: An Autoethnographic Approach10. Lisa Cooke: Subjectivities Implode: When 'The Lone Male' Ethnographer is Actually Nursing Mother...11. Emma J. Stewart: Icebreaker: Experiences of Conducting Fieldwork in Arctic Canada with my Infant Son12. Ana Maria Muñar: Researching in a Men's Paradise: The Emotional Negotiations of Drunken Tourism Fieldwork13. Heike A. Schänzel: Motherhood within Family Tourism Research: Case Studies in New Zealand and SamoaConclusion. Brooke A. Porter and Heike A. Schänzel: Gender: A Variable and a Practice

I thoroughly enjoyed every chapter in this collection. It is clichéd to say that a book is long overdue, but Femininities in the Field truly is, given the glaring lack of attention on the role and impact of gender in tourism fieldwork. This book goes beyond mere method, providing unflinchingly honest accounts of the joys, challenges and complexities of being a ‘woman’ in the field.