1st Edition
Gender, Sexuality and National Identity in the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain Chasing the Rainbow
Introduction
Chapter One Setting the Scene - Sitges and Cosmopolitanism
Chapter Two A history of tourism in Britain and Spain
Chapter Three Living Between Expectation and Reality
Chapter Four Sitges and Lifestyle Migration
Chapter Five Authenticity and Identity - becoming who you are in Sitges
Chapter Six Escaping from Ties that Bind and Other Contradictions
Chapter Seven Political Theories of Recognition
Chapter Eight The Revaluation of Homosexuality and the Cross-Gendered Paradigm
Chapter Nine The Heterosexual Matrix
Chapter Ten Women, Lesbians, and Authenticity – an extended interview
Chapter Eleven ‘Heterolesbianism’ and Pornography
Chapter Twelve Sitges Pride; a Case Study
Chapter Thirteen Heterolesbianism as Hypersexualisation
Conclusion
Biography
Laura Dixon is a social anthropologist and the programme leader of Events Management at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Her research to date focuses on recognition, cosmopolitanism, gender, and sexuality amongst privileged British "lifestyle migrants" in the tourist town of Sitges, in Spain. She is currently working on exploring ideas of temporality and spatialisation in relation to Britons who have recently returned from Spain to the UK.
