Women's Leisure: A Feminist Perspective

Author: (American) Cara Peterson et al., translated by Liu Er, Ji Bin, Ma Lan
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book primarily employs research methods from social psychology to explore the relationship between women and leisure. It focuses on discussing: the fairness, empowerment, and social transformation of women's leisure. The theoretical goal of the book is to enhance the credibility of women's power and status, restructure existing social systems and ways of existence, ensuring that every woman has the right to live freely and personally, and to enjoy fairness, dignity, and freedom of choice both at home and outside. The book also covers multiple aspects of women's leisure, such as: the history of women's leisure research, the relationship between women's leisure and social transformation, the connection between leisure and women's fight for freedom, the significance of societal recognition of the value of women's leisure, leisure and social fairness, factors that constrain women's leisure and their relationship with sociocultural structures, and the varying meanings of leisure at different stages of women's life cycles. The authors profoundly interpret the ideological connotations of feminism in contemporary times, gently guiding us to understand: women's social status will be the most important indicator of a civilized society. This book is regarded as a pioneering work in the field.