Gender, Class, and Respectability in Leisure

Gender, Class, and Respectability in Leisure

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Sociology

This book interrogates the role of gender and class in shaping women’s 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 women’s leisure to their labour, women’s 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 Skegg’s 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 a country in which modernisation and Westernisation have been a central dynamic shaping political, social, and cultural life.

Gökben Demirbaş

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/102879/9781040118184.pdf?sequence=1

Taylor & Francis

2024

Mustabsyirah

Creative Commons

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English

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