Abstract
The essay recalls counter-stories produced by key ‘subaltern’ feminists who resisted ‘whitestream’ feminism’s single story. Making a case study of contemporary research on White women’s sex/romance tourism in the Caribbean with local black men, the essay applies the critical lessons of ‘subaltern’ feminism for research inquiry into White women’s social/sexual behaviour in ‘white imperial tourist’ (Alexander 1997) locations. The essay parses representative samples of the sex/romance tourism literature into two broad approaches: (1) Gender/feminism and (2) political economy. Specifying the strengths and limitations of these approaches, the essay mobilises counter-hegemonic story telling by sketching an alternative approach grounded in a Fanonist inspired antiracist and critical race feminism. This approach identifies how white femininity’s sexual autonomy moves globally on the dynamics of empire, while simultaneously reifying and transforming colonialist tropes. This analysis reveals that white womanhood is implicated in reproducing globalised power inequities of white imperial tourism and enhances a deeper recognition of how heterosexual local-tourist intimacies differentially situates the partners within structures and relations of power.
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