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Wide-ranging and challenging, this book offers a host of new insights into how leisure theory has handled the question of gender difference and inequality.
Providing a critical introduction to the leading positions in leisure theory, Betsy Wearing guides the reader through their strengths and weaknesses from a feminist perspective. This book draws attention to the various leisure experiences that women encounter and construct in their everyday lives and the meanings that these experiences have for them. Her perspective takes into account such poststructuralist ideas as multiple subjectivities of women and multiple femininities; the possibilities of resistance to male dominance in leisure; the potential through leisure of rewriting masculine and feminine scripts; and leisure as a site of struggle to challenge hegemonic masculinity.
The Self and Freedom and Constraint in Leisure: Interactionist Theories
The Self and Freedom and Constraint in Leisure: Interactionist Theories
In contrast to the macrosocial approaches of functionalist and Marxian theorists, interactionists turn their attention to the microsocial milieu of individual actors. The structures of power in wider society such as class and gender are not seen as deterministic within this framework. Theorists such as Kelly (1983, 1987a, 1994), drawing on the work of Mead, focus on the microsocial experiential aspects of leisure and on individuals as thinking actors (or agents) with ability to construct leisure experiences which are both challenging and rewarding. Feminist theorists who have adopted this approach, such as Shaw (1985), Samdahl (1988), Wimbush and Talbot (1988), Bella (1989), Henderson et al. (1989, ...
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