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Book Title: Romance on the Road: Traveling Women Who Love Foreign MenISBN: 096253441X
Author: Belliveau, Jeannette
Publication Date: June 2006
Publisher: Beau Monde Press, Baltimore, MD 21231. Library discounts available.
Book Type: Nonfiction - Travel, Women's Interest
Available from: Baker and Taylor, Ingram, Amazon.com, or direct from the publisher, 410-276-7428 or www.beaumonde.net
Reviews:
- Foreword: Descriptive book on sex and the traveling woman. ... The final chapter, "Sex, power, ethics and the future," may be the most helpful, and most practical, for the female traveler preparing for an adventure abroad.
For women contemplating sexual experiences overseas, Belliveau provides a frank, contextual guidebook to experiencing foreign men.
-- Chris Arvidson
- California Bookwatch: Romance on the Road: Traveling Women Who Love Foreign Men offers something competitors can seldom touch: the most complete, candid assessment in print of women who travel to love foreign men. Stories by such women present worldwide journeys and encounters with local men from Italy and the Caribbean to India, Asia, Latin America and beyond.
But don't expect light travelogue literature in Romance on the Road: it's also got quite a serious side, detailing cultural encounters, oddities, dangers, and history and economic backgrounds. 25 academics and medical doctors from five nations also contribute to a survey which includes the author's own encounters with men around the world. ... Its information will prove priceless to any seeking a blend of scholarly insight and lively travelogue in one package.
-- Diane C. Donovan
- Small Press Bookwatch: Very strongly recommended introduction to the do's and don'ts for women concerning romantic liaisons when traveling in other countries. ... Romance On The Road is also an informed and informative examination of the reasons for "love journeys."
-- James A. Cox
- Romance on the Road would be great for courses in women's studies and human sexuality. It challenges some ideas and conventions about women's sexuality in particular, and raises issues that will make many academics, including many feminists, uncomfortable. But I would hope that it would encourage serious reflection and rethinking on ideas about women's behavior.
-- Dr. Joti Sekhon, Greensboro College, N.C.
- Midwest Book Review: Romance on the Road is a study of sexual experimental behavior by Western women while traveling -- a sexual odyssey with charts, maps, footnotes and handy geographical timelines that encapsulate women's sexual behavior historically. The author includes history, reasons, sexual ethics, etiquette and thoughts for the future.
- Annals of Tourism Research: Belliveau poses some important questions for academics, including evolutionary psychologists. The cultural studies crowd have tried to persuade us that every trait in human behavior can exclusively be assigned to the beliefs of the communities in which we are born and raised. ... If Belliveau is right, however, once romance on the road becomes acceptable behavior for straight females, lesbians, gays and transsexuals, this view should be cast into the oblivion of a Dictionnaire d'idees recues. With its happy-go-lightly approach, Romance on the Road is a welcome reminder of the need to re-assess our certainties every now and then.
-- Dr. Julio Aramberri, Drexel University
- Perceptive Travel.com: Belliveau has done an admirable job of combining veteran intelligence on each locality with a profile of an adventurous Western woman and a timeline of foreign female exploits in the region. Clearly an optimist, Belliveau argues that despite obvious risks the lustful practice can be psychologically healing, fulfill a woman's urge for sexual connoisseurship, or address situations like involuntary celibacy.
-- Anastasia Ashman
Note to Maryland libraries: Author and publisher are local, based in Baltimore. Author is available for presentations at local libraries.