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Gender, Class, and Respectability in Leisure - Gökben Demirbaş

Gender, Class, and Respectability in Leisure

Understanding Women’s ‘Free Time Activities’ in Modern Turkey
Buch | Hardcover
196 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-65017-3 (ISBN)
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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. This analysis reveals that two measures of gendered respectability – reproductive work and the honour code – and how they mediate with the classed measures of respectability, are essential to understanding women’s leisure practices in the Turkish context. The book argues that these interactions are likely shared in many Global South countries, including Islamic societies. Therefore, this analysis shines important new light on women’s experiences more broadly, and on the social, political, and cultural dynamics of traditional social structures in a modernising world.

This book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in leisure studies, women’s studies, sociology, cultural studies, or Middle East studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Gökben Demirbaş 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.

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 Women’s Leisure, 8. Solidarity and Status: Neighbouring as an Everyday Leisure Activity, 9. Concluding Thoughts

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Critical Leisure Studies
Zusatzinfo 4 Tables, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 535 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-032-65017-6 / 1032650176
ISBN-13 978-1-032-65017-3 / 9781032650173
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