ABSTRACT

A growing body of women's studies literature and leisure literature exists. This unique book brings together these two areas in a way that allows the reader to view women's leisure from several perspectives helping to provide opportunities for equality, integrity and freedom of choice within leisure.

Women and leisure: more truth than facts. The ideal woman: a historical perspective on women's leisure. Feminism and leisure. The meaning of leisure in women's everyday lives. Leisure as a development issue. Leisure participation for women: problems and possibilities. Constraints on women's leisure. Women and leisure: the future. Bibliography.