(Other) bodies and tourism studies

Research findings on two gay pride parades in New Zealand and Australia are offered in order to argue that critical social theory on embodiment can pr ovide new challenges to, and exciting possibilities fbr, tourism research. Such studies tend to produce hegemonic, disembodied, and masculinist knowle dges. Social sciences have been built on a mind/body dualism that privilege s the former over the latter. Feminist writing on the body has thrown the C artesian separation of the two into question, Explicit inclusion of gendere d/sexed and sexualized bodies in tourism research problematizes this dualis m, thereby subverting the masculinism of tourism discourse.