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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.
Hegemonic Struggles in Leisure Spaces: Cultural Studies
Hegemonic Struggles in Leisure Spaces: Cultural Studies
By studying leisure practices in the context of culture or ‘the whole way of life’ of people, cultural studies have added a dimension to the understanding of leisure which was not addressed by the uncritical theories of functionalism or the political/economic focus of Marxism. Cultural theories with their bases in Gramsci's civil society and cultural hegemony, rather than in ideological superstructure and economic infrastructure, have broadened the context of leisure to include the meaning-making institutions of wider society such as mass media, film, art, religion, politics, rituals, literature and rites of passage, as well as the meanings of leisure experiences for groups and individuals. Critical cultural studies have been most interested in ...
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