Gender, Class, and Respectability in Leisure
Understanding Women’s ‘Free Time Activities’ in Modern Turkey
- 204 pages
- English
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Gender, Class, and Respectability in Leisure
Understanding Women’s ‘Free Time Activities’ in Modern Turkey
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Structure and 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
- Appendix 1: Demographic Information of the Sample from Panayır Neighbourhood
- Appendix 2: Demographic Information of the Sample from Yasemin Park Neighbourhood
- Index