Betsy Wearing
Biographic Data
| ID | 245760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Betsy Wearing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Betsy |
| FAMILY NAME | Wearing |
| SIGNATURE | WEARING B |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 181 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Conceptualizing the selves of tourism
A profusion of touristic experiences of the last 20 years has generated a variety of means of theorizing, analysing and marketing tourism. This paper has sought to recentre the analysis on the ideas of a conceptualization of the self through the tourism experience. Predominant current conceptualizations of tourism as commiditized escapes have been re-examined and recontextualized in the light of feminised post structural viewpoints to bring a ric…
Smoking as a fashion accessory in the 90s
Conspicuous consumption, as conceptualized by Veblen, increasingly influences people's choices of leisure commodities, not for their use value but for their signification in terms of identity and status. This paper explores the impact on their identity formation of their choice of smoking as a leisure activity by adolescent girls. We ask, 'why do adolescent women adopt the images of women produced by the smoking marketeers?'; 'why do adolescent w…
Leisure and Feminist Theory
This text provides the first comprehensive and critical introduction to leisure theory from a feminist perspective offering many new insights into how leisure theory has handled the question of gender difference and inequality
Women Breaking Out
For Australian couple families, grandmothers provided 56% of all informal child-care in 1992. The aim of this research was to analyse discourses on grandmotherhood and to examine the impact of these discourses on the way that grandmothers incorporate grandmotherhood into their daily lives and their subjectivities. Local papers were content analysed and semistructured interviews were conducted with 20 grandmothers living in a middle-class resident…
Refocussing the tourist experience
In current sociological analyses of tourist experience, class, race, ethnicity, age and gender are being incorporated into frameworks which initially assumed that male views of the phenomenon are universal. In this paper we seek to incorporate gender into the fundamental conceptualization of the tourist and the tourist destination. Drawing on concepts from interactionist and poststructural feminist theories we critique the male bias in the concep…
Leisure and resistance in an ageing society
This paper examines the development of a dominant discourse on ageing in a culture which devalues the aged and excludes them from the productive sphere. Through literature, the media, language, humour and in social science theory, research and social policy the underlying assumption has been that ageing means deficiency and a necessary curtailment of physical activities and social involvement. In contrast, the developing discourse on leisure emph…
The pain and pleasure of gendered leisure
Adolescent women, identity and smoking
Recent theorising concerning leisure has suggested that this sphere, along with the family, the educational system and the occupation system, contributes to identity formation and more especially to gender identity. However, feminist analyses suggest that leisure can be both an area for the subordination and domination of women and an area of resistance to dominant ideologies and discourses. Questions are raised within this framework as to the ne…
Leisure and Women's Identity in Late Adolescence
Current research suggests that leisure is yet another site of female subordination. Nevertheless, discourses on leisure which take into account post-structuralist feminist analyses and the spontaneity of the “I” in identity construction, enable leisure to be perceived as a potential site for the construction of identities which resist male definitions and control of feminine identities and make way for individuality in leisure experience for wome…
Identity and the commodification of leisure
This paper examines the effect commodifying leisure has on its perceived quality for the individual. We argue that leisure has a great deal to contribute to individual identity in urban industrial society, but that this is being overshadowed in a market economy which commodifies leisure and produces it for a large number of people, with a focus on profit. This idea leads us to examine the conformity and gender stereotyping potentiality of leisure…
Leisure and Women's Identity
Critical theorists such as Rojek suggest that leisure in capitalist society masks individual oppression rather than contributing to individual identity. This paper argues, however, that such a view incorporates a limited view of identity and ignores aspects of agency such as Mead's “I”. Drawing on Mead's concepts of “I” and “me” and poststructural ideas of subjectivity and discourse, the paper examines the relationship between leisure experiences…
Beyond the Ideology of Motherhood
The structural view of power in feminist analysis to date has discouraged women as victims from thinking that anything they do at an individual level can be effective in the gender struggle. This article presents a view of power that incorporates resistance. Leisure as resistance for mothers of first babies is explored. The intersection of two contradictory discourses: the discourse on motherhood and that on human rights allows these mothers to t…
All in a day's leisure’
This paper suggests that leisure conceptualized as time or activity alone poses problems for gender. The underlying idea of leisure as freely-chosen, self-actualizing experience is presented as a basis for broadening the concept. Both the limitations and the freedoms inherent in the leisure experience of women and men may be explained through such a concept of leisure. This concept leads us to explore new areas of literature, in particular femini…
Gender and Power in Social Work
Recent social work literature has challenged traditional male world views extant in social work theory and practice and the position of women as workers in the profession. To date, however, attempts to explain the situation have been fragmented and largely limited to the social work profession itself. This paper examines firstly the origin of women's disadvantage within social work in terms of male/female relationships of power in wider society. …
Australian Women
Refocussing the tourist experience
In current sociological analyses of tourist experience, class, race, ethnicity, age and gender are being incorporated into frameworks which initially assumed that male views of the phenomenon are universal. In this paper we seek to incorporate gender into the fundamental conceptualization of the tourist and the tourist destination. Drawing on concepts from interactionist and poststructural feminist theories we critique the male bias in the concep…
Leisure and resistance in an ageing society
This paper examines the development of a dominant discourse on ageing in a culture which devalues the aged and excludes them from the productive sphere. Through literature, the media, language, humour and in social science theory, research and social policy the underlying assumption has been that ageing means deficiency and a necessary curtailment of physical activities and social involvement. In contrast, the developing discourse on leisure emph…
Conceptualizing the selves of tourism
A profusion of touristic experiences of the last 20 years has generated a variety of means of theorizing, analysing and marketing tourism. This paper has sought to recentre the analysis on the ideas of a conceptualization of the self through the tourism experience. Predominant current conceptualizations of tourism as commiditized escapes have been re-examined and recontextualized in the light of feminised post structural viewpoints to bring a ric…
All in a day's leisure’
This paper suggests that leisure conceptualized as time or activity alone poses problems for gender. The underlying idea of leisure as freely-chosen, self-actualizing experience is presented as a basis for broadening the concept. Both the limitations and the freedoms inherent in the leisure experience of women and men may be explained through such a concept of leisure. This concept leads us to explore new areas of literature, in particular femini…
Adolescent women, identity and smoking
Recent theorising concerning leisure has suggested that this sphere, along with the family, the educational system and the occupation system, contributes to identity formation and more especially to gender identity. However, feminist analyses suggest that leisure can be both an area for the subordination and domination of women and an area of resistance to dominant ideologies and discourses. Questions are raised within this framework as to the ne…
Identity and the commodification of leisure
This paper examines the effect commodifying leisure has on its perceived quality for the individual. We argue that leisure has a great deal to contribute to individual identity in urban industrial society, but that this is being overshadowed in a market economy which commodifies leisure and produces it for a large number of people, with a focus on profit. This idea leads us to examine the conformity and gender stereotyping potentiality of leisure…
Leisure and Women's Identity in Late Adolescence
Current research suggests that leisure is yet another site of female subordination. Nevertheless, discourses on leisure which take into account post-structuralist feminist analyses and the spontaneity of the “I” in identity construction, enable leisure to be perceived as a potential site for the construction of identities which resist male definitions and control of feminine identities and make way for individuality in leisure experience for wome…
Smoking as a fashion accessory in the 90s
Conspicuous consumption, as conceptualized by Veblen, increasingly influences people's choices of leisure commodities, not for their use value but for their signification in terms of identity and status. This paper explores the impact on their identity formation of their choice of smoking as a leisure activity by adolescent girls. We ask, 'why do adolescent women adopt the images of women produced by the smoking marketeers?'; 'why do adolescent w…
Women Breaking Out
For Australian couple families, grandmothers provided 56% of all informal child-care in 1992. The aim of this research was to analyse discourses on grandmotherhood and to examine the impact of these discourses on the way that grandmothers incorporate grandmotherhood into their daily lives and their subjectivities. Local papers were content analysed and semistructured interviews were conducted with 20 grandmothers living in a middle-class resident…
Leisure and Women's Identity
Critical theorists such as Rojek suggest that leisure in capitalist society masks individual oppression rather than contributing to individual identity. This paper argues, however, that such a view incorporates a limited view of identity and ignores aspects of agency such as Mead's “I”. Drawing on Mead's concepts of “I” and “me” and poststructural ideas of subjectivity and discourse, the paper examines the relationship between leisure experiences…
Gender and Power in Social Work
Recent social work literature has challenged traditional male world views extant in social work theory and practice and the position of women as workers in the profession. To date, however, attempts to explain the situation have been fragmented and largely limited to the social work profession itself. This paper examines firstly the origin of women's disadvantage within social work in terms of male/female relationships of power in wider society. …
Gender and Power in Social Work
Recent social work literature has challenged traditional male world views extant in social work theory and practice and the position of women as workers in the profession. To date, however, attempts to explain the situation have been fragmented and largely limited to the social work profession itself. This paper examines firstly the origin of women's disadvantage within social work in terms of male/female relationships of power in wider society. …
Australian Women
All in a day's leisure’
This paper suggests that leisure conceptualized as time or activity alone poses problems for gender. The underlying idea of leisure as freely-chosen, self-actualizing experience is presented as a basis for broadening the concept. Both the limitations and the freedoms inherent in the leisure experience of women and men may be explained through such a concept of leisure. This concept leads us to explore new areas of literature, in particular femini…
Beyond the Ideology of Motherhood
The structural view of power in feminist analysis to date has discouraged women as victims from thinking that anything they do at an individual level can be effective in the gender struggle. This article presents a view of power that incorporates resistance. Leisure as resistance for mothers of first babies is explored. The intersection of two contradictory discourses: the discourse on motherhood and that on human rights allows these mothers to t…
Leisure and Women's Identity
Critical theorists such as Rojek suggest that leisure in capitalist society masks individual oppression rather than contributing to individual identity. This paper argues, however, that such a view incorporates a limited view of identity and ignores aspects of agency such as Mead's “I”. Drawing on Mead's concepts of “I” and “me” and poststructural ideas of subjectivity and discourse, the paper examines the relationship between leisure experiences…
Leisure and Women's Identity in Late Adolescence
Current research suggests that leisure is yet another site of female subordination. Nevertheless, discourses on leisure which take into account post-structuralist feminist analyses and the spontaneity of the “I” in identity construction, enable leisure to be perceived as a potential site for the construction of identities which resist male definitions and control of feminine identities and make way for individuality in leisure experience for wome…
Identity and the commodification of leisure
This paper examines the effect commodifying leisure has on its perceived quality for the individual. We argue that leisure has a great deal to contribute to individual identity in urban industrial society, but that this is being overshadowed in a market economy which commodifies leisure and produces it for a large number of people, with a focus on profit. This idea leads us to examine the conformity and gender stereotyping potentiality of leisure…
The pain and pleasure of gendered leisure
Adolescent women, identity and smoking
Recent theorising concerning leisure has suggested that this sphere, along with the family, the educational system and the occupation system, contributes to identity formation and more especially to gender identity. However, feminist analyses suggest that leisure can be both an area for the subordination and domination of women and an area of resistance to dominant ideologies and discourses. Questions are raised within this framework as to the ne…
Leisure and resistance in an ageing society
This paper examines the development of a dominant discourse on ageing in a culture which devalues the aged and excludes them from the productive sphere. Through literature, the media, language, humour and in social science theory, research and social policy the underlying assumption has been that ageing means deficiency and a necessary curtailment of physical activities and social involvement. In contrast, the developing discourse on leisure emph…
Women Breaking Out
For Australian couple families, grandmothers provided 56% of all informal child-care in 1992. The aim of this research was to analyse discourses on grandmotherhood and to examine the impact of these discourses on the way that grandmothers incorporate grandmotherhood into their daily lives and their subjectivities. Local papers were content analysed and semistructured interviews were conducted with 20 grandmothers living in a middle-class resident…
Refocussing the tourist experience
In current sociological analyses of tourist experience, class, race, ethnicity, age and gender are being incorporated into frameworks which initially assumed that male views of the phenomenon are universal. In this paper we seek to incorporate gender into the fundamental conceptualization of the tourist and the tourist destination. Drawing on concepts from interactionist and poststructural feminist theories we critique the male bias in the concep…
Leisure and Feminist Theory
This text provides the first comprehensive and critical introduction to leisure theory from a feminist perspective offering many new insights into how leisure theory has handled the question of gender difference and inequality
Smoking as a fashion accessory in the 90s
Conspicuous consumption, as conceptualized by Veblen, increasingly influences people's choices of leisure commodities, not for their use value but for their signification in terms of identity and status. This paper explores the impact on their identity formation of their choice of smoking as a leisure activity by adolescent girls. We ask, 'why do adolescent women adopt the images of women produced by the smoking marketeers?'; 'why do adolescent w…
Conceptualizing the selves of tourism
A profusion of touristic experiences of the last 20 years has generated a variety of means of theorizing, analysing and marketing tourism. This paper has sought to recentre the analysis on the ideas of a conceptualization of the self through the tourism experience. Predominant current conceptualizations of tourism as commiditized escapes have been re-examined and recontextualized in the light of feminised post structural viewpoints to bring a ric…
Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Identity (music (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)