ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the women's occasional access to physical gambling, leisure spaces. It reviews the women's participation in those gambling activities which fit quite neatly into traditional definitions of leisure. Adopting Foucauldian concepts of the operation of power, the chapter also considers the ways in which the women were active in creating their own class and gender positions through their participation in these gambling activities. Many of the women interviewed who played bingo said that they preferred playing bingo to the National Lottery. The multiple discussions of betting on dogs and horses, illustrated the women's representations of their various class and gender positions. Participation in syndicates not only offers a leisure space within the work place, it also offered access to physical leisure spaces away from work. The majority of syndicates which were discussed in the interviews, saved up the money won during the year, and used it to fund a night out with other syndicate members.
