Gender and Leisure: Social and Cultural Perspectives

by Carmichael Aitchison; Cara

• ISBN13: 9780415261562
• ISBN10: 0415261562
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-12-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book presents a thorough investigation of the role of leisure as a significant site, and process, in the construction and contestation of gender relations. Grounded in current research data drawn from major research projects, and taking a post-structuralist feminist approach, this book offers an innovative theoretical framework and a wealth of significant new material for those seeking to understand contemporary gender relations.

Author Biography

Cara Carmichael Aitchison is Professor in Human Geography, University of the West of England.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
1 Introduction	1	(7)
Introducing the social-cultural nexus of gender and leisure	1	(2)
Introducing the outline and structure of the book	3	(5)
2 Gender and leisure theory	8	(30)
Introduction: ways of knowing, seeing and believing	8	(2)
Social science and the philosophy of knowledge: contested ways of knowing	10	(3)
Positivism: a functional legacy	13	(2)
Phenomenology: a more meaningful approach	15	(3)
Structuralism: constructing social critiques	18	(1)
Poststructuralism: deconstructing cultural power	19	(2)
Feminist epistemology within the social sciences	21	(3)
Liberal feminism: reform from within	24	(2)
Socialist and Marxist feminism: the constraints of patriarchal capitalism	26	(2)
Radical feminism: the sexuality of oppression	28	(1)
Poststructural feminism: the cultural codes of modernity	29	(4)
Postcolonial and black feminist theories: marking a difference	33	(3)
Overview	36	(2)
3 Gender and leisure studies	38	(24)
Introduction: sociologies of leisure and leisure sociologies	38	(3)
Gender and contested definitions of leisure	41	(1)
Of time, work and gendered leisure	42	(1)
Recreating leisure as activity	43	(1)
Gender, leisure and the functioning of the social order	44	(1)
Gender and the relative freedom of leisure	45	(2)
Leisure studies: from structural to cultural approaches	47	(3)
Feminist leisure studies: the first two decades	50	(7)
Gender and leisure studies: the influence of poststructuralism	57	(3)
Overview	60	(2)
4 Gender and leisure places	62	(24)
Introduction: placing gender and leisure	62	(1)
Geographies of leisure and leisure geographies	63	(2)
Structuralist theories and spatialised feminism	65	(3)
Social and cultural geographies and gendered leisure space	68	(4)
Gender, leisure and the place of 'the gaze'	72	(2)
Poststructural theories of sex and gender	74	(2)
Gender, leisure and the place of 'the dualism'	76	(2)
From colonial to postcolonial and 'Other' geographies	78	(6)
Overview	84	(2)
5 Gender and leisure policy	86	(32)
Introduction: the politics of equity	86	(2)
A historical context to gender and leisure policy	88	(1)
Gender, leisure and policies of social inclusion	89	(2)
Gender, leisure and sport policy: the role of Sport England	91	(2)
Gender equity and national policy frameworks for sport	93	(3)
The Women's Sports Foundation: tackling inequitable structures and cultures	96	(6)
Local authorities and leisure provision	102	(2)
The privatisation of leisure services	104	(9)
Leisure plans and Local Cultural strategies	113	(3)
Overview	116	(2)
6 Gender and leisure education	118	(17)
Introduction: sociologies of gender and education	118	(3)
Theorising 'engendered education'	121	(2)
Curriculum development and engendered education	123	(3)
Research and engendered education	126	(5)
Building a model of gender scholarship in leisure, tourism and sport education	131	(3)
Overview	134	(1)
7 Gender and leisure management	135	(24)
Introduction	135	(2)
Defining the terms in studies of gender and management	137	(3)
Theorising gender (in)equity in management	140	(3)
Gender (in)equity in service sector industries	143	(5)
Professionalism and leisure management	148	(2)
Structures and cultures of (un)equal opportunities in leisure management	150	(3)
Gender equity and women's career progression in leisure management	153	(4)
Overview	157	(2)
8 Gender and leisure: the social-cultural nexus	159	(4)
References	163	(24)
Index	187