Examining the child’s impacts on single mothers’ leisure

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11436601
AutoresHannah Irving (University of Ottawa), Hannah R Irving, Audrey R Giles (0000-0003-1396-0628, University of Ottawa, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen30
Número3
Páginas365-373
Fecha de publicación2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLeisure Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0261-4367 • E-ISSN: 1466-4496
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02614361003716974
OpenAlexW2103064662
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas11

With the majority of research on the experiences of single mothers focusing on motherhood as an inhibiting constraint to leisure, it is important to examine the ways in which motherhood might also enable the obtainment of a satisfactory leisure lifestyle. Our study employed a Foucauldian approach to understand constraints to leisure, in that we view constraints as always both inhibiting and enabling action. The purpose of this study was to explore three single mothers’ leisure experiences prior to and since becoming single mothers to identify the ways in which their child(ren) enables leisure practices as opposed to merely constraining them. The participants presented evidence of how their child(ren) altered both their priorities and their leisure preferences by providing them with opportunities to broaden their leisure experiences. Our research findings challenge dominant discourses that suggest that children can act only to inhibit leisure

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