This book takes an intimate look at the lives of British migrants in Sitges, an affluent coastal tourist town in Northern Spain and investigates ideas of gender, sexuality and national identity as they are brought to life through the voices of British lifestyle migrants.

Laura Dixon is a social anthropologist and the programme leader of Events Management at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Her research to date focuses on recognition, cosmopolitanism, gender, and sexuality amongst privileged British "lifestyle migrants" in the tourist town of Sitges, in Spain. She is currently working on exploring ideas of temporality and spatialisation in relation to Britons who have recently returned from Spain to the UK.

Introduction; Chapter One Setting the Scene - Sitges and Cosmopolitanism; Chapter Two A history of tourism in Britain and Spain; Chapter Three Living Between Expectation and Reality; Chapter Four Sitges and Lifestyle Migration; Chapter Five Authenticity and Identity - becoming who you are in Sitges; Chapter Six Escaping from Ties that Bind and Other Contradictions; Chapter Seven Political Theories of Recognition; Chapter Eight The Revaluation of Homosexuality and the Cross-Gendered Paradigm; Chapter Nine The Heterosexual Matrix; Chapter Ten Women, Lesbians, and Authenticity - an extended interview; Chapter Eleven 'Heterolesbianism' and Pornography; Chapter Twelve Sitges Pride; a Case Study; Chapter Thirteen Heterolesbianism as Hypersexualisation; Conclusion;