In her recently published book, Women and Sex Tourism Landscapes, Erin Sanders-McDonagh explores female tourists’ interactions with highly sexualized spaces and places in two very different contexts: the Netherlands and Thailand.
Sexual spaces, normally inhabited by (mostly) female sex workers, are understood as masculine spaces, and positioned for and around male consumers. However, red light zones and public sex performances in both Thailand and Holland are being explored and visually consumed by female tourists in significant numbers. Their presence in red light districts and sexual venues is at odds with the ways in which sexual spaces have normally been positioned.
Dr Sanders-McDonagh is a feminist public scholar with a commitment to radical and engaged pedagogic practices. Her research focuses primarily around gender and sexuality, and gender-based violence.
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- Erin Sanders-McDonagh is a lecturer in Criminology at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent.