ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that ‘thinking intersectionally’ is a crucially important endeavor for feminist leisure scholarship. Black feminist perspectives are central to the conceptualisation of intersectionality and this informs the chapter throughout; this is not done in an attempt to reaffirm feminist standpoint perspectives (Black and/or other standpoint epistemologies included); rather it is about recognition and a plea to look at leisure (and social relations more broadly) from relational, critically informed positions. Drawing on examples of empirical research focused on leisure as contested space, and studies on masculinity, gender, and recreational dance, the chapter considers how intersectionality, feminism and social justice agendas are bound together in complex and dynamic ways. Thinking intersectionally can contribute to debates regarding fourth wave feminism, and the critically informed basis of intersectionality, to challenge persistent power inequalities, is arguably a key perspective for feminist leisure scholars to engage with.
