Abstract
While other disciplines have engaged with critiquing work-life balance, tourism studies has
been slower in acknowledging and critically contesting the notion as it applies to our own
academic lives. This paper aims to address this gap through a collective memory-work of
how four female tourism academics try to achieve work-life harmony and why it sometimes
seems unattainable. In contrast to the masculinist, neoliberalist values of academic performance, achievement and competitiveness; our gendered analysis revealed that we felt
more comfortable with the embodied, feminine values of caring, communion and union, or
what we refer to as work-life harmony
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 23-36 |
| Journal | Journal of Hospitality Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- Balance
- Harmony
- Tourism
- Universities
- Women
- Work-life