dc.contributor.author | Burden, Josephine | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-15T06:53:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-15T06:53:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 04419057 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/10261133.1999.9674166 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/181845 | |
dc.description.abstract | During the last quarter of the 20th Century there has been a strong groundswell of feminist critique of the dominant discourses in Leisure Studies. In addition to groundbreaking texts from all parts of the globe (see for example Wimbush & Wbot, 1988;
Henderson et al, 1989; Green et al, 1990; Wearing, 1998; Thompson, 1999), major conferences have been held with a theme of feminist critique. The LSA conference in Leeds, UK in 1998 was run in conjunction with the Second International Women in Leisure Conference and had as its theme, 'The Big Ghetto: Gender, Sexuality and Leisure'. The Third International Women in Leisure Conference will take place in Fremantle, Australia, in 2001, in conjunction with the Australia/New Zealand Leisure Studies Association. A further indication of this groundswell was the granting of full Commission status the WLRA Tasskforce on Women in 1997.
These developments indicate that feminist theorisation of leisure issues has become part of the research repertoire of people working in the field. Thus whilst quantitative studies such as those of Bittman (1991) continue to demonstrate women's disadvantage in access to leisure time, more and more qualitative work has theorised this disadvantage in terms of gender power relationships. This shift from the mere description of disadvantage to the analysis of the relationships which underpin that disadvantage allows the feminist researcher to explore the complexities of dimensions of power such as age, ethnicity, class, sexuality and ability which intersect with gender. In some instances, it also allows research to become a vehicle
for social change.
In this paper, I will use my own research with older people to show how feminist theories are being used in the closing decade of the 20th century to problematise one aspect of Leisure Studies, namely the gendered nature of public and private space. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | World Leisure and Recreation Association | |
dc.publisher.place | Warsaw | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 31 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 36 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 4 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | World Leisure and Recreation | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 41 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 15 | |
dc.title | Feminist Critique of Leisure Theory and Practices: Women Claiming Public Space | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C2 - Articles (Other) | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Business School, Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Burden, Josephine E. | |