Women, Leisure and Tourism : Self-Actualization and Empowerment Through the Production and Consumption of Experience / Linda Ingram, Klára Tarkó, and Susan L. Slocum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingram, Linda, author.

Tarkó, Klára, author.

Slocum, Susan L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Recreation.

Women.

Leisure--Psychological aspects.

Leisure.

Self-actualization (Psychology) in women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : CAB International, 2021.

Summary:

This book looks at women as producers and consumers of leisure experiences. Women produce and consume leisure through a variety of activities as a way to enhance self-actualization and personal empowerment - sometimes through resistance to cultural norms and expectations.

Contents:

Introduction : women as producers and consumers of leisure / Linda J. Ingram, Susan L. Slocum and Klára Tarkó

An examination of female exceptionalism in early leisure placemaking activities / Amanda Belarmino

Masculinity & moral licensing in the locker room : a critical analysis of culture, gender and leisure / Kate E. Evans and Dorothy Schmalz

Sport for women in later life / Tony Liechty, Stephanie West, Jill Juris Naar, Julie Son, and Jen D. Wong

History and identity : female vendors at a Renaissance festival / Susan L. Slocum

By her own hand : creativity, crafts and commerce / Linda J. Ingram

Creating a culture of consent for event tourism / Caitlin Brooks

Older women and leisure / Sarah Standridge

Nonformal learning participation as leisure for Syrian refugee women in Turkey / Selen Subasi

Running away or running toward? : pilgrimage as a source of women's leisure / Pheroza Daruwalla

The online life of gamer women / Kitti Arnold-Ferencz and Klára Tarkó

A netnographic study on Chinese women's guimi travel experiences / Sharleen Chen and Barry Mak

Queens on the go : an Africana woman scholar and traveler experience / E'Lisha Victoria Fogle

Women and leisure in the Italian context / Emanuela Bologna and Simona Staffieri

Towards an understanding of Indian women's construction of leisure experience / Vinathe Sharma-Brymer

Conclusion / Linda J. Ingram.

Notes:

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Print version: Ingram, Linda Women, Leisure and Tourism

ISBN:

9781789247992

1789247993

9781789248012

1789248019

OCLC:

1289369444