Publications
Frohlick, Susan (2013) Sexuality, Women, and Tourism: Cross Border Desires through Contemporary Travel. Routledge.
BOOKS
Inviting readers into a world of yoga studios, beaches, and rainforests, Susan Frohlick investigates how atmosphere can create "bloom spaces" that lead tourists down reproductive paths. Through an experimental approach that combines creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, and narrative ethnographic writing, this book seeks to capture the feelings and sensations that influence reproduction in tourist destinations. Ultimately, the book urges a rethinking of tourism that takes reproduction into consideration, highlighting the multiple actors involved in reproduction and the inequities of tourism that are reproduced. Anticipated publication date: January 2024.
Frohlick, Susan (2024) Bloom Spaces: Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica. Teaching Culture Series. University of Toronto Press.
This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a Central American country. As an in-depth ethnographic account, the book traces the experiences of heterosexual North American and European women’s transnational encounters, and examines new sexual and social practices arising from contemporary global tourism, shifting sexual cultures both at home and abroad, consumer culture, and women’s increasing mobility.
Frohlick, Susan (2022) Loss, Commemoration, Listening… For Yoko. Anthropologica 64(2). Available at [+]
Frohlick, Susan and Celeste Macevicius. (2023). Listening Otherwise: From ‘Silent Tourism’ Soundscapes to Privileged Sonic Ways of Knowing. Tourist Studies. Available at [+]
Frohlick, Susan and Adey Mohamed (2021) Messy Free-For-All or an “Aha!” Moment? Reflections on an HIV Awareness Program with African Newcomer Youth. Practicing Anthropology 43(4)
Frohlick, Susan (2020) Gender, Holidays, and Tourism. In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Hilary Callan (Ed.). John Wiley & Sons.
Frohlick, Susan and Carolina Meneses (2020) “You Never Know What Will Happen:” Youth, Affect, and the Eventfulness of Tourism Encounters. Anthropology and Humanism
Speier, Amy, Kristin Lozanski, and Susan Frohlick (2020) Reproductive Mobilities. Introduction to Special Section. Mobilities 15(2): 107-119. Available at [+]
Frohlick, Susan (2020) Reproductive Vibes. Mobilities 15(2): 120-134.
Cidro, Jaime, Rachel Bach, and Susan Frohlick (2020) Canada’s Forced Birth Travel: Towards Feminist Indigenous Reproductive Mobilities. Mobilities 15(2): 173-187. Available at [+]
Frohlick, Susan, Kristin Lozanski, Amy Speier, and Mimi Sheller (2019) Ideas in Motion: “Mobilities Meets Reproductive Vibes….,” Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 9(1): 95-102.
Alison Odger, Susan Frohlick, Robert Lorway (2019) Re-Assembling “Risky” Subjects: African Migrant Youth in Winnipeg, Canada. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness. DOI:10.1080/01459740.2018.1551390. Available at [+]
Frohlick, Susan, Paula Migliardi and Adey Mohamed (2018) ‘Mostly with White Girls:’ Settlement, Spatiality, and Emergent Interracial Sexualities in a Canadian Prairie City. City & Society 30(2):165-185. DOI:10.1111/ciso.12176. Available at [+]
Frohlick, Susan (2016) Feeling Sexual Transgression: Subjectivity, Bodily Experience, and Non-Normative Hetero-Erotic Practices in Women’s Cross-Border Sex in Costa Rica. Gender, Place & Culture 26(2): 257-273.
Cohen, Frayda, Amy Speier, and Susan Frohlick (2015) Kinship Travel: Relatedness through International Tourism and Travel Networks. Anthropologica 57(1): 15-18.
Frohlick, Susan (2015) “Souvenir Babies” and Abandoned Homes: Tracking the Reproductive Force of Tourism. Anthropologica 57(1): 63-76.
Frohlick, Susan (2013) Intimate Tourism Markets: Money, Gender, and the Complexity of Erotic Exchange in a Costa Rican Caribbean Town. Anthropological Quarterly 86(1): 133-162.
Frohlick, Susan (2012) Intercambios Fluidos: la negociacion de la intimidad entre mujeres turistas y hombres locales en un pueblo transnacional del Caribe Costarricense. Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos(Universidad de Costa Rica) 38: 279-304. Translation by Megan Rivers-Moore and Leonardo Solano Mendez.
Frohlick, Susan and Lynda Johnston (2011) Naturalizing Bodies and Places: Tourism Media Campaigns and Heterosexualities in Costa Rica and New Zealand. Annals of Tourism Research 38(3):1090-1109.
Frohlick, Susan and Paula Migliardi (2011) “Heterosexual Profiling” and the New Dating Exigencies for Older Women in the Cyber-Dating Market. Australian Feminist Studies 26 (67): 73-88. Special Issue: Heterosexuality.
Frohlick, Susan (2010) The Sex of Tourism? In Julie Scott and Tom Selywn (Eds.), Thinking Through Tourism. London: Berg Publishers.
Frohlick, Susan (2009) “Pathos of Love in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica: Emotion, Travel and Migration. Mobilities4(3): 389-405.
Frohlick, Susan (2008) “I’m More Sexy Here:” Erotic Subjectivities of Female Tourists in the “Sexual Paradise” of Caribbean Costa Rica. In Tanu Priya Uteng and Tim Cresswell (Eds.), Gendered Mobilities. Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 129-42.
Frohlick, Susan (2008) Negotiating the Public Secrecy of Sex in a Transnational Tourist Town in Caribbean Costa Rica. Tourist Studies 8(1):19-39.
Frohlick, Susan and Julia Harrison (2008) Introduction: Engaging Ethnography in Tourist Research. Tourist Studies 8(1): 5-18.
Frohlick, Susan (2007) Fluid Exchanges: The Negotiation of Intimacy between Tourist Women and Local Men in a Transnational Town in Caribbean Costa Rica. City & Society 9(1): 139-168.
Frohlick, Susan (2006) “Wanting the Children and Wanting K2”: The Incommensurability of Motherhood and Mountaineering in Britain and North America in the Late Twentieth Century. Gender, Place & Culture 13(5): 477-490.
Frohlick, Susan (2005) “That Playfulness of White Masculinity”: Mediating Masculinities and Adventure at Mountain Film Festivals. Tourist Studies 5(2): 175-193.
Frohlick, Susan (2004) “Who is Lakpa Sherpa?” Circulating Subjectivities in the Local/Global Terrains of Himalayan Mountaineering. Journal of Social and Cultural Geography 5(2): 195-212.
Frohlick, Susan (2003) Negotiating the Global Playground: Shifting Contours of Everest as a Transnational Workplace. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 40(5): 525-542. Special issue, Negotiating Boundaries in a Globalizing World.
Frohlick, Susan (2002) “You Brought Your Baby to Base Camp?” Families and Fieldsites. Great Lakes Geographer 9(1): 67-76. Special issue on Feminism and the Academy.
Frohlick, Susan (1999/2000) The Hyper-Masculine Landscape of High-Altitude Mountaineering. Michigan Feminist Studies 14: 81-104.
ARTICLES
Frohlick, Susan (2023) Costa Rica, Youthhood, Tourism Intimacies, 2015. In Naked Fieldnotes, Matthew Wolf-Meyer and Denielle Elliott, eds. University of Minnesota Press.
Frohlick, Susan and Carolina Meneses (2019) Emergent Collaborations: Field Assistants, Voice, and Multilingualism. In Learning and Using Languages in Ethnographic Research. Robert Gibb, Annabel Tremlett, and Julien Danero Iglesias (Eds.), Bristol, UK: Channel View Publications.
Frohlick, Susan (2006) Rendering and Gendering Mobile Subjects: Placing Ourselves between Local Ethnography and Global Worlds. In Simon Coleman and Peter Collins (Eds.), Locating the Field: Metaphors of Space, Place and Context in Anthropology. London: Berg Publishers, pp. 87-104.
Frohlick, Susan (1999) “Home Has Always Been Hard For Me:” Single Mothers’ Narratives of Identity, Home, and Loss. In Rae Bridgman, Sally Cole, and Heather Howard-Bobiwash, (Eds.), Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights. Peterborough: Broadview Press, pp. 86-102.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Bonface Beti, Adey Mohamed, and Susan Frohlick. October 4, 2021. “No HIV in Canada?” African Migrant Youth Act Out HIV Awareness through Community-Buidling Improvisational Theatre. Youth Circulations. Available at [LINK]
Amy Speier and Susan Frohlick. Writing Life No 11: An Interview with Susan Frohlick. May 20, 2021. Somatosphere. Available at [LINK]
Frohlick, Susan, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Celeste Macevicius (2020) Urban Syncopation: Curating Sounds, Normalcies, and Discrepancies During COVID-19 in BC, Canada. City & Society. Available at [LINK] [LINK]
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