Defining the field
Subtitle: 30 years of the Leisure Studies Association
By: editors, Eileen Kennedy, Helen Pussard
Contributors: Leisure Studies Association (Great Britain)
Series: LSA publication -- no. 89; Publication (Leisure Studies Association (Great Britain)) -- no. 89.
Publisher: LSA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Eastbourne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781905369003
Subjects: History; Leisure; Research; Leisure Studies Association (Great Britain)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: I. Framing the study of leisure. The society of leisure: myth and reality / Ken Roberts; title: Leisure and the dreamworld of modernity / Chris Rojek; title: Serious leisure- A middle-class phenomenon? / Stan Parker; title: Ethics in leisure- An agenda for research / Mike McNamee and Celia Brackenridge; title: II. Leisure policy and provision. Public policy and leisure / Fred Coalter; title: The politics of school sport / Barrie Houlihan; title: The sexist state: leisure, labour and the ideology of welfare policy / Tess Kay; title: III. Leisure identities. Holidays and the discipline of industrial labour: a historian's view / J.K. Walton; title: The politics of women's leisure / Rosemary Deem; title: Outlaws in sport and education? Exploring the sporting and education experiences of lesbian physical education teachers / Gill Clarke; title: A disabled leisure studies: Theorising dominant discourses of the employed body, the able body and the active body? / Cara Aitchison; title: IV. Sites of leisure. The playing of bingo: Industry, market and working-class culture / Rachael Dixey; title: Stepping into aerobics? Anne Flintoff, Sheila Scraton and Peter Bramham; title: Culture, social difference and the leisure experience: The example of consuming countryside / David Crouch and Neil Ravenscroft; title: Sport tourism at a crossroad? Considerations for the future / Heather J. Gibson.