Trans traveling and embodied practices: Panopticism, agency, dress, and gendered surveillance

Kelly L. Reddy-Best and Eric Olson

Annals of Tourism Research, 2020, vol. 85, issue C

Abstract: We examined trans individual's enactments of gender authenticity negotiations with a unique perspective considering the intersections of dress and travel. We drew upon the concepts of power, agency of the body, and dress and ambivalence to examine relationships between embodied practices, traveling, and society by conducting 15 semi-structured interviews with trans individuals. Through our work we argue that dress and appearance-related practices while traveling play an integral part of negotiating gender identities in ways that feel authentic to the self for trans individuals. Part of these authenticity negotiations sometimes involve moments of lacking authenticity through self-surveillance in order to manage liveable and safer lives in unknown or even familiar spaces.

Keywords: Transgender and gender non-confirming tourists; Identity negotiation; Appearance management; Appearance negotiation; Identity labor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2020.103028

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