Article: The Red Riviera: gender, tourism, and postsocialism on the Black Sea.(Book review)

GHODSEE, KRISTEN. The Red Riviera: gender, tourism, and postsocialism on the Black Sea. xii, 226 pp., illus., bibliogr. London, Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2005. [pounds sterling]14.95 (paper)

The Red Riviera contributes to the literature on economic transformation in post-socialist Eastern Europe, with a focus on women employed in tourism. The book's title refers to the popularity of Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, with its warm waters and clean beaches, as a tourist destination accessible to Eastern bloc citizens during the socialist era.

The book traces the development and transformation of tourism in Bulgaria during the socialist and post-socialist ...

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