ABSTRACT
Heritage has now become a major preoccupation of leisure and tourism studies. There has been a lack of acknowledgement, however, of the role of gender in both the representation and consumption of heritage places and products. Whilst geographical discourses have engaged with the concept of ‘gendered space’ in the creation of place and landscape, leisure and tourism theory is only beginning to debate issues of gender and spatialisation (Aitchison and Jordan 1998; Watson and Scraton 1998).
