Full Description
Feminisms in Leisure Studies acknowledges and advances the contribution of feminist theories to leisure knowledge and research. Building upon the strong history of feminist leisure scholarship, the book reviews key feminist theories and offers an overview of a fourth wave of feminism and its relevance to leisure.
Written by a team of leading international feminist scholars, each chapter addresses a particular theoretical perspective, using examples from each author's research to unpack methodological and substantive issues essential to leisure studies. Critically, this book moves beyond women, the emphasis of much gender scholarship to date, to focus on issues of feminism as connected to leisure scholarship more broadly.
This book is an important and engaging read for students and scholars of diversity, women's studies, multiculturalism, social justice, gender studies, leisure studies, LGBTQQ studies, and feminist research.
Contents
1. Fourth Wave Feminism: Theoretical Underpinnings and Future Directions for Leisure Research, 2. Into New Modes of Unbecomings: Engaging Poststructural Feminism Towards Alternative Theorizations of Gender in Leisure Research, 3. Feminist Theories After the Post-Structuralist Turn, 4. Thinking Intersectionally, Fourth Wave Feminism and Feminist Leisure Scholarship, 5. Queering Leisure: Teasing Out Queer Theory's Legacies, 6. "We Danced Around the Circle": Feminist Standpoint Theories and Turning old Stories into Something New, 7. Manning Up and Manning On: Masculinities, Hegemonic Masculinity and Leisure Studies, 8. The Fourth Wave: What #MeToo Can Teach Us About Millennial Mobilization, Intersectionality, and Men's Accountability
