ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|12 pages

Fourth wave feminism

Theoretical underpinnings and future directions for leisure research

chapter 2|21 pages

Into new modes of unbecomings

Engaging poststructural feminism towards alternative theorizations of gender in leisure research

chapter 4|21 pages

Thinking intersectionally

Thinking intersectionally

chapter 5|23 pages

Queering leisure

Teasing out queer theory’s legacies

chapter 6|24 pages

“We danced around the circle”

Feminist standpoint theories and turning old stories into something new

chapter 7|23 pages

Manning up and manning on

Masculinities, hegemonic masculinity, and leisure studies

chapter 8|16 pages

The fourth wave

What #MeToo can teach us about millennial mobilization, intersectionality, and men’s accountability