ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests that understandings of women's leisure lives would benefit, not only from an inclusion of women's gambling behaviour, but also from engaging with post-structuralist accounts of leisure. Such accounts can help to reveal the operation of power in women's lives. Gambling is one of the least theorised areas of popular culture, and has traditionally been subject to little scrutiny from social critics. The book also considers the various types of gambling activities that the women participated in, aside from the National Lottery. Feminist research into women and money management and household budgeting has drawn attention to the ways in which working class women are rarely able to set aside money for themselves. Syndicates offered women a fund set aside from household necessities, which was intended for the sole use of funding a night out with work colleagues.
