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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.
Public Leisure Places and Spaces: Urban Sociology
Public Leisure Places and Spaces: Urban Sociology
Urban sociology, like sociology generally, has moved from the functionalism of the 1940s and 1950s, through Marxist and neo-Marxist power and class analysis, to poststructuralist analysis. Women have largely remained invisible, or have been added in, never part of theory construction or the research agenda which has remained ‘rational’, ‘scientific’ and ‘technological’. Some notable feminist exceptions introduce a woman's eye view and ask us to imagine how a ‘feminine’ city might look. In so doing they are asking planners to open up city spaces to many uses so that they might be accessible and pleasurable for women and other marginalized people. In this chapter I examine the conceptualization of public places in ...
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