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Publication Detail
"Doing it Right: Postwar Honeymoon Resorts in the Pocono Mountains"
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Publication Type:Chapter
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Authors:Penner B
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Publisher:Berg
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Publication date:2004
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Place of publication:Oxford
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Pagination:207, 226
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Chapter number:11
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Editors:Medina Lasansky D,McLaren B
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ISBN-10:1859737048
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Status:Published
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Book title:Architecture and Tourism: Perception, Performance and Place
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Keywords:Tourism, Resort Architecture, Honeymoons, Sexuality
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Notes:This 6000 word book chapter considers the phenomenon of the modern American honeymoon industry - its origins, architecture and continued popularity - but focuses primarily on the period between 1965-1975 when Cove Haven in the Pocono Mountains pioneered a new Architecture of Romance, complete with mirrored ceilings, dramatic lighting and heart-shaped baths. What accounts for the relevance of such honeymoon resorts, both then and today? This chapter excavates a previously unwritten history, at the same time as it considers another form of sex tourism: the American honeymoon. It challenges the notion that non-designed spaces like resort hotels are mere kitsch, arguing that they are complex spaces which have an important social and cultural role.
Abstract
This 6000 word book chapter considers the phenomenon of the modern American honeymoon industry - its origins, architecture and continued popularity - but focuses primarily on the period between 1965-1975 when Cove Haven in the Pocono Mountains pioneered a new Architecture of Romance, complete with mirrored ceilings, dramatic lighting and heart-shaped baths. What accounts for the relevance of such honeymoon resorts, both then and today? This chapter excavates a previously unwritten history, at the same time as it considers another form of sex tourism: the American honeymoon. It challenges the notion that non-designed spaces like resort hotels are mere kitsch, arguing that they are complex spaces which have an important social and cultural role.
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