ABSTRACT
The current chapter focuses on the spatial characteristics of women's leisure. It argues that while each residential environment embodies a broader class culture, reflected in social relations as well as material conditions, the residents of a neighbourhood do not form a fully coherent body, but rather a complex co-existence. The chapter argues that the ideals of heterosexual family continue to play a central role in regulating ‘respectable’ female bodies in ‘appropriate’ leisure spaces. Its nature and degree, however, varies significantly across social classes and the type of neighbourhood one lives in. Particular attention is paid to the socially upward groups in both working and middle classes who execute an intricate form of negotiating between honour and civility in constructing their accounts of subjectivity.
