Table Of Content“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
Feminisms in Leisure Studies
Feminisms in Leisure Studies acknowledges and advances the contribution of fem-
inist 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.
Diana C. Parry is Associate Vice- President of Human Rights, Equity and Inclu-
sion 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.
Routledge Critical Leisure Studies
Series Editor: Tony Blackshaw, Sheffield Hallam University
The modern world is one that holds an intense fascination with the activities
we place under the heading ‘leisure’. Rather than simply being the opposite of
‘work’, ‘leisure’ today can be seen as a form of social and cultural life in which
‘work’ and ‘leisure’ intersect and mutually inform one another.
This series is a forum for agenda- setting research that examines our con-
temporary world of leisure. It places a strong emphasis not only on mapping
current developments in individual and collective leisure activities, but also on
challenging our understanding of these from different perspectives. Providing
detailed empirical and theoretical accounts, this series explores the critical
issues that underpin people’s leisure lives at the beginning of the twenty- first
century.
While this series is devoted to leisure, many of its books touch on other
subject fields, contributing to interdisciplinary studies and appealing to readers
from across the social sciences and the humanities.
Available in this series
1 Re- Imagining Leisure Studies
Tony Blackshaw
2 Philosophy of Leisure
Foundations of the good life
Johan Bouwer and Marco van Leeuwen
3 Feminisms in Leisure Studies
Advancing a Fourth Wave
Edited by Diana C. Parry
4 Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society?
A. J. Veal
Feminisms in Leisure
Studies
Advancing a Fourth Wave
Edited by Diana C. Parry
First published 2019
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For my daughters, Claire and Charlotte, who inspire me to be a
better feminist every day
Contents
List of contributors xi
Acknowledgements xiv
1 Fourth wave feminism: theoretical underpinnings and future
directions for leisure research 1
DIAnA C. PARRy, CoREy W. JoHnSon, AnD
FAITH- AnnE WAGLER
2 Into new modes of unbecomings: engaging poststructural
feminism towards alternative theorizations of gender in
leisure research 13
LISBETH A. BERBARy
3 Feminist theories after the poststructuralist turn 34
SImonE FULLAGAR, ADELE PAVLIDIS, AnD
JESSICA FRAnComBE- WEBB
4 Thinking intersectionally: fourth wave feminism and
feminist leisure scholarship 58
BECCy WATSon
5 Queering leisure: teasing out queer theory’s legacies 79
JUDy DAVIDSon
6 “We danced around the circle”: feminist standpoint theories
and turning old stories into something new 102
FELICE yUEn
