Gender, Class, and Respectability in Leisure: Understanding Womens Free Time A [Paperback]

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 Womens Leisure,??8. Solidarity and Status: Neighbouring as an Everyday Leisure Activity,??9. Concluding Thoughts

This book interrogates the role of gender and class in shaping womens everyday leisure practices. Drawing on empirical research in urban Turkey, the book explores how leisure is perceived and practised by women within their communities.

G?kben Demirba_ is Lecturer in the Political Science and Public Administration Department at Trakya University, Turkey. She received her sociology PhD degree from the University of Glasgow in 2018. 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.

This book interrogates the role of gender and class in shaping womens everyday leisure practices. Drawing on empirical research in urban Turkey, the book explores how leisure is perceived and practised by women within their communities.

The book examines the relationship of womens leisure to their labour, womens 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 Skeggs 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 alSo