Leisure and Feminist Theory

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

Author: Betsy M. Wearing
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 12/04/1998
Pages: 219
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.28w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780803975378

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