Gendered cities: women and public leisure space in the ‘postmodern city’

Scraton, Sheila; Watson, Beccy

doi:10.1080/026143698375196

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“…Bhavana 375 and Meena became involved in, respectively, taekwondo and dance through female friends or 376 family members, who did represent active minority ethnic women. Peer and family networks 377 have been found important for minority girls' recreation (Scraton & Watson, 1998). 378…”

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Representing valued bodies in PE: a visual inquiry with British Asian girls

Hill

Azzarito

2012

Physical Education & Sport Pedagogy

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Representing valued bodies in PE: a visual inquiry with British Asian girls

Hill

Azzarito

2012

Physical Education & Sport Pedagogy

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“…Feminist literature has long been providing evidence of gendered leisure practices and sites (Henderson 1996(Henderson , 1990). Scraton and Watson (1998) recognize the gendered character of public spaces in the postmodern city, while Warner-Smith and Brown (2002) provide similar evidence from a small country town. McDowell, Ward, Fagan, Perrons and Ray (2006) discuss the situation of working women in a large city in which the organization of daily life affects their time spent on and experience of child care.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Spatial factors could be organized better to help working women to benefit from leisure opportunities (Hilbrecht, 2007). Scraton and Watson (1998) further suggest that women are not a homogeneous group and their leisure choices are not exempt from power relations.…”

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Leisure and tourism in Sweden: A Challenge for All Actors

Lindström¹

2009

World Leisure Journal

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“…Firstly, fear is viewed as an 'inborn quality of women' (Koskela, 1999: 112) expressed in a similar, uniform way. Secondly, other identity positions are often ignored and gender is viewed as the primary factor shaping these experiences (Scraton and Watson, 1998;Skeggs, 1999;Pain, 2001). Some writers have challenged the notion of the fearful woman (Koskela, 1997;Gilchrist et al 1998;Starkweather, 2007).…”

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“…The four local women all felt visible due to ethnicity. Associating this with being a woman was less explicit but this was interspersed with gendered experiences of being out at night and transgressing norms relating to the appropriate positioning and behaviour of Asian women in night-time leisure spaces (Scraton and Watson, 1998;Green and Singleton, 2006). Two of the local Asian women said they rarely went out at night: however, the two non-local students led a typical student night-time leisure lifestyle.…”

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Women students’ perceptions of crime and safety: negotiating fear and risk in an English post-industrial landscape

Wattis

Green

Radford

2011

Gender, Place & Culture

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CitationWattis, L., Green, E. E. and Radford, J. (2011) This paper explores safety concerns and fear of crime amongst women students attending university in a large town in the north-east of England. It acknowledges that gender as a social category is problematic; however, the paper is grounded in recognition of its significance in shaping experiences of fear, safety and space. The main aim is to explore how gender intersects with student identity/ies in a specific local context.The paper draws upon qualitative data from doctoral research which explored the crime and fear experiences of women students studying in a town bearing all of the hallmarks of industrial decline. It evidences powerful representations of place with respondents drawing heavily on the town's working-class culture and deindustrialisation in their reading of the locale. In addition, respondents linked the town unequivocally to crime and disorder, and identified the criminal threat as originating from local people. In this way, fears were frequently locally focused, linking to a fear of place and the risks associated with the student identity. This highlights that women's fears and spatial negotiation cannot be read exclusively in terms of gender -in this context they are frequently shaped by 'studenthood' and the dynamics of class and locality. At the same time however, the paper reveals how the local intersects with gender to shape experiences of space, fear and safety, as well as the transformative effects of ethnicity at its intersection with gender, locality and the student identity.Keywords: Identity; students; safety; fear; local context. IntroductionThis article explores women's fears as students in a post-industrial, urban locality where crime and disorder were highly visible features of the social landscape. It is underpinned by a recognition of the salience of gender 1 in shaping women's experiences of space, fear and safety. These themes have been covered extensively in feminist literature and research which focuses on how gender structures, sexual violence, harassment, ideology and discourses of victimisation perpetuate fears and render public space differential and problematic for women (Gordon et al.

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Gendered cities: women and public leisure space in the ‘postmodern city’

Cited by 148 publications

References 6 publications

Representing valued bodies in PE: a visual inquiry with British Asian girls

Representing valued bodies in PE: a visual inquiry with British Asian girls

Leisure and tourism in Sweden: A Challenge for All Actors

Women students’ perceptions of crime and safety: negotiating fear and risk in an English post-industrial landscape

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