Leisure And Feminist Theory

Author : Betsy Wearing
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0857026003
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leisure and Feminist Theory written by Betsy Wearing and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-12-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Diana Parry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351610155
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminisms in Leisure Studies written by Diana Parry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminisms in Leisure Studies acknowledges and advances the contribution of feminist theories to leisure knowledge and research. Building upon the strong history of feminist leisure scholarship, the book reviews key feminist theories and offers an overview of a fourth wave of feminism and its relevance to leisure. Written by a team of leading international feminist scholars, each chapter addresses a particular theoretical perspective, using examples from each author’s research to unpack methodological and substantive issues essential to leisure studies. Critically, this book moves beyond women, the emphasis of much gender scholarship to date, to focus on issues of feminism as connected to leisure scholarship more broadly. This book is an important and engaging read for students and scholars of diversity, women’s studies, multiculturalism, social justice, gender studies, leisure studies, LGBTQQ studies, and feminist research.

Author : Eileen Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333435182
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Leisure, what Leisure? written by Eileen Green and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently the Sociology of Leisure was dominated by theoretical approaches which made women's experiences invisible. Drawing upon feminist perspectives this book re-conceptualises leisure in order to provide a more informed understanding of women's leisure. The authors argue that such an examination necessarily involves a study of women's daily lives which views leisure in relation to the structure of their lives as a whole. Drawing upon a major study of Sheffield women's leisure and other sources, the processes of negotiation and social control are cited as crucial in determing women's access to free time and the resources required to enjoy leisure.

Author : Leeja Carter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351055925
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Applied Sport Psychology written by Leeja Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an emphasis on women and transwomen athletes and exercisers of color, Feminist Applied Sport Psychology: From Theory to Practice introduces the reader to feminist, black feminist, and womanist sport psychology, offering an alternative and powerful approach to working with athletes. Covering core concepts, applied skills, and research methods, the book includes useful features throughout, such as discussion questions and definitions of key terms. It is organized into three sections covering, firstly, feminist theory, history, movements, and their importance in applied sport psychology; secondly, the intersection of race, class, and gender, and the integration of intersectional considerations into sport psychology; and finally, in-depth case studies of feminist sport psychology in action, each of which offers strategies for best practice. Feminist Applied Sport Psychology: From Theory to Practice is important reading for feminist-centred students and practitioners in performance and sports domains, and exercise psychology and anybody with an interest in feminist approaches to working with women of diverse backgrounds.

Author : Louise Mansfield
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137533188
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education written by Louise Mansfield and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides an original, comprehensive and unparalleled overview of feminist scholarship in sport, leisure and physical education. It captures the complexities of past, current and future developments in feminism while highlighting its theoretical, methodological and empirical applications. It also critically engages with policy and practice issues for women and girls taking part in sport and leisure pursuits and in physical education provision. The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education is international in scope and includes the work of established and emerging feminist scholars. It will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, gender studies, sport sciences, and sports business and management.

Author : Claire Langhamer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Leisure in England, 1920-60 written by Claire Langhamer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text draws upon recent feminist theoretical interventions to suggest a framework for the history of women's leisure which explicitly problematises the category leisure and foregrounds its relationship to work within women's lives.

Author : Diana C. Parry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000289818
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex and Leisure written by Diana C. Parry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the emerging and cutting-edge area of leisure research to highlight the importance of sexuality and sexual activity and its relevance to leisure studies. It brings to the fore some complex issues associated with this topic using a range of substantive, epistemological, theoretical and methodological approaches. Drawing on international scholarship, the book examines sexuality from multiple, and at times, competing directions, exploring the continuum of sex from work through to carnal pleasure, and across specific sexual practices including BDSM, pornography, stripping, and sex work. Drawing on critical, feminist, queer, and post theoretical perspectives, the book charts a new direction for leisure studies and sex research, including diverse understandings of leisure practice, sex positivity, fringe and deviant sex practices. Critically, the book moves beyond merely establishing sex as a leisure pursuit to focusing on the compelling and complex intersections between sexuality and leisure. This is fascinating reading for any student or researcher with an interest in leisure, sexuality, gender, cultural studies or sociology.

Author : Cara Carmichael Aitchison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113513586X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Leisure written by Cara Carmichael Aitchison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly contested nature of both 'gender' and 'leisure' encapsulates many of the most critical social and cultural debates of the early twenty-first century. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives, as well as extensive empirical research, Gender and Leisure goes forward to offer a contemporary socio-cultural analysis of gender relations in leisure practice and leisure policy. The book begins by introducing and evaluating the key social and cultural ideologies, philosophies and beliefs that have informed our theoretical understanding of gender and leisure. The particular leisure policies that have emerged from these perspectives are examined. Part two of Gender and Leisure draws on research in social and cultural theory, gender and leisure studies, cultural geography, management and education, and goes on to explore the reality of contemporary gender relations in leisure practice. Leisure policy, leisure management, places and sites of leisure and leisure education are examined, as are the relationships between leisure, sport and tourism.

Author : C. Rojek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230625185
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Leisure Studies written by C. Rojek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-06-20 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students and an agenda for future debate and research academics.

Author : David L. Andrews
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118325281
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Sport written by David L. Andrews and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture. Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular culture Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itself Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory, gender, violence, race, disability and politics