Unleisured lives; Sport in the context of women's leisure |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Development Finance Centre, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;2. University of Westminster, Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods, UK;3. School of Economics, Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Business and Law, Coventry University Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB, UK;4. Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium;1. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Science, Team Sports Department, Greece;2. Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Statistics, Greece;1. School of Healthcare Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK;2. Public Health Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK;3. Infection Prevention Society, London, England, UK;4. School of Health Sciences, City University London, London, England, UK;1. CNR-ISTEC, Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics, Via Granarolo 64, Faenza, Italy;2. Centro Ceramico, Via Martelli 26/A, Bologna, Italy;1. Economics Department, Lancaster University Management School, LA1 4YX, United Kingdom;2. Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 90 Campus Center Way, 209A Flint Lab, Amherst, MA 01003, United States;3. The University of Kent, Kent Business School, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom;1. Graduate School of Business Administration, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Box 98 Wits, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa;2. School of Management, Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya;3. Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa |
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| Abstract: | This article examines women's participation and non-participation in sport in the wider context of female leisure. It begins by setting out the reason why women's entitlement and access to leisure should be a major area of concern for feminists, comparable to employment and domestic labour. It then goes on, drawing partly on a study conducted by the author in the new city of Milton Keynes, to explore the dimensions of and constraints within which women's leisure operates, showing that for most women sport does not form a sizeable part of that leisure. Next some possible reasons why sport does not play a major role in women's leisure patterns and experiences are considered. Finally there is a brief discussion of some of the ways in which both sport and leisure could be made more accessible and responsive to the needs and interests of women, by changing not only aspects of sport and leisure, but also women's overall position in society. |
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