Understanding women’s “incremental” leisure repertoires in the family leisure space

Bibliographic Data

ID12855422
AuthorsKathy Lloyd (corresponding author), Wesley O’brien (0000-0002-5104-9141), Caroline Riot (0000-0002-3991-7233)
Year2018
Volume61
Issue1
Pages17-29
Publication date2018-09-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Leisure & Recreation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1026-1133 • E-ISSN: 2333-4509
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/16078055.2018.1523805
OpenAlexW2892876611
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited35

Research into women and family leisure has focused primarily on the constraints they face as a consequence of the ethic of care and ideas of intensive mothering. This paper considers mother’s experiences of family leisure, as a site of “incremental” leisure in and away from, the home. Eighteen mothers with one, or more children under five years of age, were interviewed in relation to their leisure participation. Women identified a range of leisure pursuits that went beyond our current understandings of family leisure as being purposive or instrumental. The women’s stories illustrated how a range of incremental leisure repertoires, including “slow leisure” and “leisure overlap”, can facilitate leisure and draw women towards (as opposed to away from) family leisure as a site of their own leisure. In this study, “incremental” leisure and its associated spaces had accumulated an affective value that allowed women to experience pleasure and enjoyment, slow down and simply “be” within the family leisure space

Leisure activity · Leisure studies · Leisure time · Physical activity · Pleasure · Political science · Recreation · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of leisure · Value (mathematics · Gender Studies · Medicine · Night-time city culture · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges