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What role do leisure, culture, sport and tourism play in shaping gender
relations?
1 Introduction 1
Introducing the social–cultural nexus of gender and
leisure 1
Introducing the outline and structure of the book 3
References 163
Index 187
Figures and tables
Figures
1 Stages of gender scholarship in curriculum development 125
2 Models of gender scholarship in leisure, sport and 133
tourism education
Tables
1 Thirty years of policy for women and sport: a summary
of key dates and policy developments 96
Acknowledgements
The seeds of this book were sewn many years ago and I would like to
acknowledge the support of those who have helped see it through to
fruition. Particular thanks go to Celia Brackenridge, Karla Henderson,
Ken Roberts, Sheila Scraton, Betsy Wearing and Diana Woodward for
their unstinting support of my research journey in gender and leisure over
the last decade.
I would also like to thank other colleagues, students and ‘teachers’ who
have provided inspiration and invitations to develop my ideas: Hossein
Alizadeh, Kay Biscomb, Liz Bondi, Kath Browne, Josephine Burden,
Peter Burns, Fred Coalter, Garry Chick, Mike Crang, David Crouch, Liz
Cunningham, Nigel Curry, Anne Dunnet, Malcolm Foley, Tim Hall,
Jennifer Hargreaves, Faezeh Hashemi, Barbara Humberstone, Mohammad
Ehsani, Heather Gibson, Fiona Jordan, Tess Kay, Teus Kamphorst, Gerry
Kenyon, Jan te Kleus, Lesley Lawrence, Francis Lobo, Nicola MacLeod,
Mags Mernagh, Carol Morris, Alison Oram, Joanna Orsman, Stephen
Owen, Kim Polistina, Stephen Shaw, Peter Taylor, John Tribe, Gill
Valentine, Tony Veal and Garry Whannel.
A special thanks goes to the Routledge Sport and Leisure team and, in
particular, to Samantha Grant, Editor of Sport and Leisure for her patience.
I acknowledge the following for permission to use copyright material
that I have previously authored.
Taylor and Francis for excerpts from ‘A decade of Compulsory
Competitive Tendering (CCT) in UK sport and leisure services: some femi-
nist reflections’, first published in 1997 in Leisure Studies 16(2), 85–105;
‘New cultural geographies: the spatiality of leisure, gender and sexuality’
first published in 1999 in Leisure Studies 18(1), 19–39; ‘Poststructural
feminist theories of representing others: a response to the crisis in leisure
studies’ discourse’, first published in 2000 in Leisure Studies 19(3),
127–144; ‘Women in leisure services: managing the social–cultural nexus
of gender equity’, first published in 2000 in Managing Leisure 5(4), 81–91;
‘Gender and leisure research: the “codification of knowledge” ’, first
published in 2001 in Leisure Sciences 23(1), 1–19.
x Acknowledgements
Sage for excerpts from ‘Theorising Other discourses of tourism, gender
and culture: can the subaltern speak (in tourism)?’, published in 2001 in
Tourist Studies 1(2), 133–147.
The Learning and Teaching Support Network Subject Centre for
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism for permission to reprint mate-
rial from ‘Engendered education: adapting models from the sociology of
education for leisure, sport and tourism in higher education’, first published
in 2003 in the Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism
Education 2(1), 93–104.
The Australia and New Zealand Leisure Studies Association for excerpts
from ‘Young disabled people, leisure and everyday life: reviewing conven-
tional definitions for leisure studies’, first published in 2000 in Annals of
Leisure Research 3(1), 1–20.
The Women’s Sports Foundation for excerpts from Women and Sport:
A Syllabus Guide first published in 2001.
1 Introduction