Feminisms in Leisure Studies

Name: Feminisms in Leisure Studies
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780367499112
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Advancing a Fourth Wave

Series: Routledge Critical Leisure Studies

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Feminisms in Leisure Studies explores the vital role of feminist theories within leisure knowledge and research. It reviews key feminist perspectives, highlighting a fourth wave of feminism relevant to leisure. Leading international feminist scholars address various theoretical viewpoints, using their research to discuss methodological and substantive issues integral to leisure studies. The book extends beyond traditional focus on women to consider feminism’s broader connections within leisure scholarship.
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This important text is ideal for students and scholars interested in diversity, women’s studies, multiculturalism, social justice, gender studies, leisure studies, LGBTQQ studies, and feminist research.

Moving beyond women, the emphasis of much gender scholarship to date, this book focuses on issues of feminism as connected to leisure scholarship more broadly. A team of leading international feminist scholars use case studies to unpack methodological and substantive issues essential to leisure studies.

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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.

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Praised for its powerful and transformative approach, this volume is seen as essential reading for students, researchers, and educators. It offers outstanding contributions that advance ideas on gender, sexuality, and feminist activism within leisure research, pushing for equitable futures. The book is recognised as a long-overdue, theoretically sophisticated yet accessible text that challenges binary gender discussions and institutional analyses, marking a key turning point for feminist leisure scholarship.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367499112

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 February 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 4 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white

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Edited by Diana Parry

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 180

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About the Author

Diana C. Parry is Associate Vice-President of Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion and Professor in Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Utilizing a feminist lens to explore the personal and political links between women's leisure and women's health, Dr. Parry’s research privileges women's standpoints and aims to create social change and enact social justice by challenging the medical model of scholarship.

Feminisms in Leisure Studies