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“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 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Diana C. Parry; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Diana C. Parry to be identified as the author of the editorial matter, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing- in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978-1-138-09076-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-10847-6 (ebk) Typeset in Goudy by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear 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
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