Gender, Class, and Respectability in Leisure : : Understanding Women's 'Free Time Activities' in Modern Turkey / / Gökben Demirbas.

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.

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Superior document:Routledge Critical Leisure Studies
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Place / Publishing House:Abingdon, England : : Routledge,, [2025]
©2025
Year of Publication:2025
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Routledge critical leisure studies.
Physical Description:1 online resource (205 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 The Structure and Agency Debate: Identifying the Margins of Feminist Leisure Research
  • Chapter 3 Respectability: A Framework for Studying Leisure
  • Chapter 4 Context Matters: A History of the Changing Modes of Respectable Femininity in Modern Turkey
  • Chapter 5 Spatial and Communal Characteristics of Respectable Femininity: An Introduction to the Empirical Analysis
  • Chapter 6 Responsibility: Or Labouring for Leisure
  • Chapter 7 Contested Spaces: Family, Community, and Women's Leisure
  • Chapter 8 Solidarity and Status: Neighbouring as an Everyday Leisure Activity
  • Chapter 9 Concluding Thoughts
  • Appendix 1: Demographic Information of the Sample from Panayır Neighbourhood
  • Appendix 2: Demographic Information of the Sample from Yasemin Park Neighbourhood
  • Index.