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.

About the Author

Diana C. Parry is Associate Vice-President of Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion and Professor in Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Utilizing a feminist lens to explore the personal and political links between women's leisure and women's health, Dr. Parry's research privileges women's standpoints and aims to create social change and enact social justice by challenging the medical model of scholarship.

Reviews

"This powerful volume, in the hands of students, researchers and educators, will be wonderfully dangerous-it will help to change the world. Featuring outstanding contributions by established and upcoming scholars writing on gender, sexuality, and feminist activism, the book advances ideas about how we can work toward more equitable futures in the context of leisure research, theory, and practice. Feminisms in Leisure Studies: Advancing a Fourth Wave represents a big wave indeed. "

Brett Lashua, Reader in Leisure and Culture at Leeds Beckett University, UK

"Using the framework of the 4th Wave, Parry brings together an array of researchers to provide a theoretically sophisticated and yet accessible approach to contemporary feminist perspectives on leisure. This book is long overdue in our field and marks a turning point for current and future researchers who want to move beyond gender based discussions grounded in individual markers of identities and in binaries, toward institutional and structural level analyses. This book is a must read for those interested in doing research that allows for direct and ongoing gender-related critiques while also providing the theoretical underpinnings to support advocacy for social change and social justice. Regardless of one's area of research or interest in leisure studies, this book is a must read for everyone."

Dana Kivel, Professor of Recreation, Parks & Tourism Administration and Director of the Community Engagement Center, California State University, USA

"This book is ideal for postgraduate students and leisure scholars with its clear and well-organized summary of each theoretical approach...Overall, this is a good quality book carrying valuable strengths one of which is its call for new areas of feminist leisure research."

Goekben Demirbas, Sociology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

"This powerful volume, in the hands of students, researchers and educators, will be wonderfully dangerous-it will help to change the world. Featuring outstanding contributions by established and upcoming scholars writing on gender, sexuality, and feminist activism, the book advances ideas about how we can work toward more equitable futures in the context of leisure research, theory, and practice. Feminisms in Leisure Studies: Advancing a Fourth Wave represents a big wave indeed. "

Brett Lashua, Reader in Leisure and Culture at Leeds Beckett University, UK

"Using the framework of the 4th Wave, Parry brings together an array of researchers to provide a theoretically sophisticated and yet accessible approach to contemporary feminist perspectives on leisure. This book is long overdue in our field and marks a turning point for current and future researchers who want to move beyond gender based discussions grounded in individual markers of identities and in binaries, toward institutional and structural level analyses. This book is a must read for those interested in doing research that allows for direct and ongoing gender-related critiques while also providing the theoretical underpinnings to support advocacy for social change and social justice. Regardless of one's area of research or interest in leisure studies, this book is a must read for everyone."

Dana Kivel, Professor of Recreation, Parks & Tourism Administration and Director of the Community Engagement Center, California State University, USA

Book Information
ISBN 9780367499112
Author Diana Parry
Format Paperback
Page Count 180
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g