Perspectives on Analyzing Gender, Women, and Leisure

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Gender is a set of socially constructed relationships which are produced and reproduced through people's actions. The purpose of this paper is to describe how research has been conducted about gender, women, and leisure; how this research has changed over the course of the contemporary women's movement of the past 30 years; and to offer considerations for future leisure scholarship which might be conceptualized with gender providing possible organizing frameworks. The retrospective historical perspective suggests five stages of scholarship: invisible, compensatory, dichotomous differences, feminist, and gender research. Using gender as a potential analytic framework for further leisure research does not imply only the study of women but offers a way to understand the behavior of females as well as males. Research acknowledging the social construction of gender also has implications for leisure research on other disenfranchised groups who are “different.” These gender analyses allow scholars to examine society as a whole along with an examination of the behavior of individuals or groups of individuals within particular contexts.

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