ABSTRACT
This chapter critically evaluates the existing feminist leisure literature by focusing on how the concept of respectability is utilised in exploring gender-based inequalities women were subject to. The chapter aims to evaluate the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the contemporary feminist literature on investigating leisure and to problematise the lack of an interest in a theory involving capitalism and social class as these systems that have a determining impact on our individuality, emotions, and subjectivities. The chapter particularly problematises the gap between individuality and culture, as if culture is constraining and the individual is freer than culture as if these two do not shape each other. The perspective the chapter highlights is that individuality is always embedded into cultural processes of distinction since it is about access to material and non-material resources to the forms of interpretations and manoeuvre which are themselves socially produced.
