Abstracts
of Annals of Leisure Research, Volume 3: 2000
Aitchison, C.
(2000). Young disabled people, leisure and everyday life: reviewing
conventional definitions for leisure studies. Annals of Leisure Research,
3, 1-20.
Conventional
definitions of leisure have focussed on when young people participate in
leisure (leisure time), what they do in their leisure (leisure activities)
and where this leisure is provided (leisure spaces). For young disabled
people, however, questions of who appear to be just as significant as
questions of when, what and where. This paper discusses the importance of
social interaction with significant others as a prerequisite for defining
certain activities and spaces as 'leisure'. The paper examines a combination
of leisure activities and spaces in the lives of young disabled people and
assesses the importance of friendships and social interaction in defining
these activities and spaces as leisure.
Cleary,
A. (2000). Rugby Women. Annals of Leisure Research, 3,
21-32.
This paper examines
social aspects of women's rugby in New Zealand, and asks how the
participants have become 'rucking women'. That is, how élite women rugby
players have expanded and transcended their socially defined feminine
embodiment to take part in a physical contact sport like rugby, requiring
strength and the kind of movement and embodiment that is generally
understood to be masculine. These women are enthusiastic players of many
sports, and the encouragement of other women rugby players has been their
main inducement to play rugby.
Warner_Smith,
P. (2000). Travel, young women and The Weekly, 1959_1968. Annals
of Leisure Research, 3, 33-46.
In
an attempt to understand the gendered nature of travel and the possibilities
which travel has offered women to resist patriarchal dominance, this paper
examines the phenomenon of the increase in young women's travel during the
1960s. An analysis of the representations of women travellers in the
Australian Women's Weekly during that period was carried out, in order to
explore images of travel and travellers which were available to young women
at that time. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on short term
departures by Australian residents were used to establish the context for
the analysis. It is suggested that travel represented a resistance by young
women to dominant patriarchal discourses on womanhood, and was a
demonstration of agency rather than objectified commodification through
travel advertising and other gendered media texts.
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