Footloose and fancy-free: Online travel advice to older and younger women

Barrett, Anne E.; Douglas, Rachel

doi:10.1080/08952841.2020.1766943

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“…For example, Dumas and colleagues' (2005) interviews with 51 older women found that participants reported caring less about their bodily appearances and attire than they had earlier in life, a freedom they attributed to their retirement and their tendency to engage in recreational activities either alone or with women of a similar age. Revealing similar patterns, Barrett and Douglas' (2020) examination of travel advice for women found that articles targeting younger women highlighted the risks of travel, especially those related to sexual harassment and alcohol consumption, while those targeting older women emphasized travel's rewards. The liberating aspects of leisure also are revealed in research on older women's social organizations that encourage bodily self-expression through flamboyant dress and play (Barrett and Naiman-Sessions 2016).…”

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confidence: 93%

“…The limiting and liberating aspects of leisure can work differently for older women, in part, because they do not anticipate as much scrutiny of their bodies as do younger women (Barrett and Douglas, 2020; Dumas et al 2005). For example, Dumas and colleagues’ (2005) interviews with 51 older women found that participants reported caring less about their bodily appearances and attire than they had earlier in life, a freedom they attributed to their retirement and their tendency to engage in recreational activities either alone or with women of a similar age.…”

Section: Performing Gender and Age In Leisure Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Aging Bodies in Paradise: A Feminist Analysis of Key West’s Fantasy Fest

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Barrett

2022

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Cultural constructions of gender and age may be challenged within politically and socially progressive leisure environments, like Key West, that promote social deviance and out-group acceptance. However, this possibility receives limited scholarly attention. Addressing this gap, our study applies a framework that highlights gender and age as performances and uses interviews ( n = 77) collected in 2017 and 2018 at Key West’s Fantasy Fest, an annual carnivalesque event characterized by body displays of nudity, body paint, and costume. In this first systematic study of Fantasy Fest, data analysis revealed four themes centering on gender, age, and bodies—displaying diverse bodies; judging bodies; limiting body displays; and reinterpreting body-related norms. Key West’s cultural ideology of inclusion allowed both young and old participants to perform gender and age in ways that contributed to a more liberating environment celebrating a range of bodies—though performances were constrained by inequalities. Bodies, especially women’s, were subjected to judgments of their sexual appeal that led some, especially older women, to limit their displays. Our findings, nevertheless, suggest progressive, carnivalesque leisure environments’ potential, however fleeting or bounded, to disrupt everyday performances and broaden conceptions of gendered and aging bodies by reinterpreting the norms surrounding them.

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confidence: 93%

Section: Performing Gender and Age In Leisure Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%