Gender and place

Sophie Louargant (1)

1 UJF - Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1

The central preoccupation of my study is the following : how far do the rural tourism characteristics imply discriminating representations towards these women . tourism in rural areas is more and more seen as an alternative to agriculture, in association with spatial restructuring. So we are made to have a new vision on the social fabric and milieus even if the roles dedicated to women didn't actually changed. Indeed women in agro-tourism are still confined in reception activities (for example Bed&Breakfast The methodology is aimed at demonstrating that there is a connection between their life's project and the spatial transcription. The search for confrontation data is based on a qualitative process in the sense that implementation tools are used: for example analysis of discourse and life's stories (narrative) with interviews. This set of tools contributes to uncover women's motivations and their implication in the social Category of men

Mots clés: GENRE TOURISME RÉCITS DE VIE RURALITÉ

Domaines: Géographie

Sophie Louargant. Gender and place. AAG Meeting in New York, Feb 2001, New-York, United States. ⟨halshs-02123527⟩