
Tourism - Travel
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Travel Is a Gendered Concept
Travel is a really good example of a gendered concept. Mary Wollstonecraft wanted to show that women could do philosophy and travel just as well as men can. And she was very interested in the way in which this concern with space affected people's attitude towards mountains. So, Simone de Beauvoir pointed out that when women children read adventure books,. it's the men that are going off and having the adventures and cruising on banana boats. It's the women who are staying at home and keeping house and looking after the children.
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