Gender, Class, and Respectability in Leisure
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-65017-3 (ISBN)
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The book examines the relationship of women’s leisure to their labour, women’s access to and uses of public leisure spaces, and the dynamics of their everyday sociability within their neighbourhoods. It is the first book to apply Skegg’s concept of ‘respectability’ - socially recognised judgments and standards which label the ‘right’ practices, that hold morality and power in a given context – as a theoretical tool with which to understand leisure in a country in which modernisation and Westernisation have been a central dynamic shaping political, social and cultural life. This analysis reveals that two measures of gendered respectability - reproductive work and the honour code - and how they mediate with the classed measures of respectability, are essential to understanding women’s leisure practices in the Turkish context. The book argues that these interactions are likely shared in many Global South countries, including Islamic societies, and therefore that this analysis shines important new light on women’s experiences more broadly, and on the social, political and cultural dynamics of traditional social structures in a modernising world.
This book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in leisure studies, women’s studies, sociology, cultural studies or Middle East studies.
Gökben Demirbaş is Lecturer in the Political Science and Public Administration Department at Trakya University, Turkey. Her research interests include different aspects of the sociology of leisure with a particular focus on gender, class, everyday life, culture, urban space, youth and citizenship.
1. Introduction, 2. The Structure & Agency Debate: Identifying the Margins of Feminist Leisure Research, 3. Respectability: A Framework for Studying Leisure, 4. Context Matters: A History of the Changing Modes of Respectable Femininity in Modern Turkey, 5. Spatial and Communal Characteristics of Respectable Femininity: An Introduction to the Empirical Analysis, 6. Responsibility: Or Labouring for Leisure, 7. Contested Spaces: Family, Community and Women’s Leisure, 8. Solidarity and Status: Neighbouring as an Everyday Leisure Activity, 9. Concluding Thoughts
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.07.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Critical Leisure Studies |
Zusatzinfo | 4 Tables, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 1-032-65017-6 / 1032650176 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-65017-3 / 9781032650173 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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