1st Edition

Feminisms in Leisure Studies Advancing a Fourth Wave

Edited By Diana Parry Copyright 2019
    180 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    180 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.

    1. Fourth Wave Feminism: Theoretical Underpinnings and Future Directions for Leisure Research

    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

    Lisbeth A. Berbary

    3. Feminist Theories After the Post-Structuralist Turn

    Simone Fullagar, Adele Pavlidis and Jessica Francombe-Webb

    4. Thinking Intersectionally, Fourth Wave Feminism and Feminist Leisure Scholarship

    Beccy Watson

    5. Queering Leisure: Teasing Out Queer Theory’s Legacies

    Judy Davidson

    6. "We Danced Around the Circle": Feminist Standpoint Theories and Turning old Stories into Something New

    Felice Yuen

    7. Manning Up and Manning On: Masculinities, Hegemonic Masculinity and Leisure Studies

    Corey W. Johnson and Luc S. Cousineau

    8. The Fourth Wave: What #MeToo Can Teach Us About Millennial Mobilization, Intersectionality, and Men’s Accountability

    Stephen M. A. Soucie, Diana C. Parry and Luc S. Cousineau

    Biography

    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.

    "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."

    Gökben Demirbaş, Sociology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK