ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the ways in which violence towards women appears to be sanctioned in aspects of the everyday practices of tourism. It examines two examples, one from Menorca and the other Mallorca, both islands in the Balearic chain located in the western Mediterranean. The chapter demonstrates that aspects of storytelling as part of tourists' entertainment and leisure activities and related touristic practices take the form of symbolic violence which serves to reinforce structural relations of male power and dominance over women. Pirates Adventure is part of late evening and night-time entertainment on offer to tourists visiting Mallorca during the high summer season. There are two types of performance on offer: Family Pirates and Adult Pirates. The pirates that it encounters in these representations are often presented within a discourse of adventure and heroism, as lovable rogues' as well as being luminal-like figures tinged with danger who stand between authority and the common' person with the latter's interests at heart.
