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An Integrative Review of Women, Gender, and Leisure: Increasing Complexities

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Pages 115-135 | Published online: 13 Dec 2017

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Wonjin Jeong, William P. Stewart, Paul H. Gobster & Carena J. van Riper. (2023) Green Leisure: Resistance and Revitalization of Urban Neighborhoods. Leisure Sciences 45:8, pages 743-763.
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Lauren A. Ray, Tristan D. Hopper & Tara-Leigh F. Mchugh. (2023) “We could just be what we wanted to be”: The role of leisure and recreation in supporting women’s mental health during COVID-19. Leisure Studies 42:6, pages 941-955.
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Giuseppe Lamberti, Jordi López-Sintas & Pilar Lopez Belbeze. (2023) The impact of internet use on leisure: Gender and age heterogeneity in young people. Journal of Leisure Research 54:5, pages 581-601.
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Monir Shahzeidi. (2023) Unequal or unavailable: gender, leisure and quality of life of refugees in Turkey. World Leisure Journal 65:4, pages 454-463.
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Jiaqi Luo, Songshan (Sam) Huang, Ronghui Jiao & Zhiyong Li. (2023) A gender perspective analysis of Chinese nationals’ leisure time allocation: Family life cycle versus demographic determinants. Journal of Leisure Research 0:0, pages 1-23.
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Dang Thuan An Nguyen & Liwei Hsu. (2023) Solo travel intention: A study of Indonesian Muslim and non-Muslim women. Journal of Leisure Research 0:0, pages 1-26.
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Heather Louise Jeffrey & Siân Stephens. (2023) The subversion of women’s anger in travel guidebooks. Annals of Leisure Research 26:3, pages 454-470.
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Bernard Kitheka & Ronald Comer. (2023) Cribbage culture and social worlds: An analysis of closeness, inclusiveness, and specialization. Journal of Leisure Research 54:1, pages 131-151.
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Erin Burkett & Angie Carter. (2022) It’s Not about the Fish: Women’s Experiences in a Gendered Recreation Landscape. Leisure Sciences 44:7, pages 1013-1030.
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Delphine Labbé, Montana Bahen, Caitlin Hanna, Jaimie Borisoff, Johanne Mattie & W. Ben Mortenson. (2022) Setting the Sails: Stakeholders Perceptions of an Adapted Sailing Program. Leisure Sciences 44:7, pages 847-861.
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Sandra Bosacki, Valentina Sitnik, Flavia Pissoto Moreira & Victoria Talwar. (2022) Emotion recognition, self-knowledge, and perceptions of leisure time activities in emerging adolescents: A longitudinal study. European Journal of Developmental Psychology 19:5, pages 654-678.
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Mandi Baker, Neil Carr & Emma Stewart. (2022) Introduction to special issue on being outdoors: challenging and celebrating diverse outdoor leisure embodiments and experiences. Annals of Leisure Research 25:3, pages 305-313.
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Tonia Gray, Sandy Allen-Craig, Denise Mitten & Rylie Charles. (2022) Widening the aperture: using visual methods to broaden our understanding of gender in the outdoor profession. Annals of Leisure Research 25:3, pages 314-334.
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Samantha Punch & Ashley Rogers. (2022) Building, not burning bridges in research: Insider/outsider dilemmas and engaging with the bridge community. Journal of Leisure Research 53:2, pages 272-289.
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Maria Hybholt, Laila Susanne Ottesen & Lone Friis Thing. (2022) Exercise in the time bind of work and family. Emotion management of personal leisure time among middle-aged Danish women. Leisure Studies 41:2, pages 231-246.
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Cindy L. Hartman & Denise M. Anderson. (2022) Psychosocial Identity Development and Perception of Free Time among College-Attending Emerging Adults. Leisure Sciences 44:1, pages 77-95.
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Emma H. Wood & Katherine Dashper. (2021) “Purposeful togetherness”: Theorising gender and ageing through creative events. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 29:11-12, pages 2008-2024.
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Rema Naganathan, Deepak Gupta & Rajiv Prasad. (2021) Connotation of leisure and leisure activities among urban Indian middle-class working women. Leisure Studies 40:6, pages 837-853.
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A. J. Veal. (2021) A critique of serious leisure as theory. Leisure Studies 40:4, pages 575-589.
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Selene Lincoln. (2021) Building resilience through trail running: women’s perspectives. Leisure/Loisir 45:3, pages 397-421.
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Lisa Petty & Dawn E. Trussell. (2021) Leisure self-care, health and well-being in women’s lives. Annals of Leisure Research 24:3, pages 328-339.
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Lee Phillip McGinnis, James W. Gentry & Trenton M. Haltom. (2021) Gender, Millennials, and leisure constraints: exploring golf’s participation decline. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events 13:1, pages 59-76.
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Kelly Bergstrom. (2021) Anti-social social gaming: community conflict in a Facebook game. Critical Studies in Media Communication 38:1, pages 61-74.
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Steven N. Waller, Angela J. Wozencroft, Jason L. Scott, Sonya Shaw & Manuela Picariello. (2020) An exploratory study of the occupational mobility patterns of African American women working in public sector parks and recreation organizations in the United States. Managing Sport and Leisure 25:6, pages 418-440.
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Mara A. Yerkes, Anne Roeters & Janeen Baxter. (2020) Gender differences in the quality of leisure: a cross-national comparison. Community, Work & Family 23:4, pages 367-384.
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George B. Cunningham & Stacy Warner. (2019) Baseball 4 All: Providing Inclusive Spaces for Persons with Disabilities. Journal of Global Sport Management 4:4, pages 313-330.
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Kelly Bergstrom. (2019) Barriers to play: accounting for non-participation in digital game play. Feminist Media Studies 19:6, pages 841-857.
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Linda Oakleaf, Brooke N. Burk & Anna Pechenik Mausolf. (2019) Shouldn’t Leisure Scholars Know Better? How the Work/Leisure Dichotomy Affects Policy and Culture for Academic Mothers. SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education 34:2, pages 96-108.
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Anita Harman & Lisette Burrows. (2019) Leaning in while sticking out: Fat, exercise, and guilt. Fat Studies 8:2, pages 187-202.
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Chris A. B. Zajchowski, Matthew T. J. Brownlee, Michael Blacketer, Jeff Rose, Danya L. Rumore, Jason Watson & Daniel L. Dustin. (2019) “Can you take me higher?”: Normative thresholds for air quality in the Salt Lake City Metropolitan area. Journal of Leisure Research 50:2, pages 157-180.
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Simone Fullagar, Emma Rich, Adele Pavlidis & Cathy van Ingen. (2019) Feminist Knowledges as Interventions in Physical Cultures. Leisure Sciences 41:1-2, pages 1-16.
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Atara Sivan, Vicky Tam, Gertrude Siu & Robert Stebbins. (2019) Adolescents’ choice and pursuit of their most important and interesting leisure activities. Leisure Studies 38:1, pages 98-113.
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Katie Rowe, Emma Sherry & Angela Osborne. (2018) Recruiting and retaining girls in table tennis: Participant and club perspectives. Sport Management Review 21:5, pages 504-518.
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Erin Morris, Carena J. van Riper, Gerard T. Kyle, Kenneth E. Wallen & James Absher. (2018) Accounting for Gender in a Study of the Motivation-Involvement Relationship. Leisure Sciences 40:6, pages 494-507.
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Emilie V. Adams, Stacy T. Taniguchi, Steven J. Hite, Peter J. Ward, Christopher B. Mugimu & Yusuf K. Nsubuga. (2018) Leisure defined by perceiving choice: perspectives of Ugandan women. World Leisure Journal 60:4, pages 265-280.
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Monica Z. Li & Monika Stodolska. (2018) Dramaturgical performances and work-leisure dynamics in rural-to-urban domestic migrations. Leisure Studies 37:5, pages 603-614.
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Eric K. Layland, Garrett A. Stone, J. Tom Mueller & Camilla J. Hodge. (2018) Injustice in Mobile Leisure: A Conceptual Exploration of Pokémon Go. Leisure Sciences 40:4, pages 288-306.
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Elaine Chiao Ling Yang. (2018) Leisure and feminist theory. Annals of Leisure Research 21:3, pages 381-384.
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Louise Platt & Rebecca Finkel. (2018) Editorial. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events 10:2, pages 113-116.
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Annie Woube. (2018) Racing against age? Gender, age, and body among senior participants in women-only sports races. Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure 41:2, pages 297-310.
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Carla Barbosa & Toni Liechty. (2018) Exploring leisure constraints among lesbian women who attend a straight-friendly church. Journal of Leisure Research 49:2, pages 91-108.
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B. Dana Kivel. (2018) Are We Ready for “Radical Leisure”?. Leisure Sciences 40:1-2, pages 19-24.
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Elaine Chiao Ling Yang, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore & Charles Arcodia. (2017) A narrative review of Asian female travellers: looking into the future through the past. Current Issues in Tourism 20:10, pages 1008-1027.
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Verena Lenneis & Gertrud Pfister. (2017) Too tired for exercise? The work and leisure of female cleaners in Denmark. Leisure Studies 36:4, pages 530-541.
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Kenneth E. Mobily, Alexa K. Smith & Kristen Chmielewski. (2017) Work, retirement and working out: the construction of exercise and the social world of retired women. Annals of Leisure Research 20:3, pages 273-294.
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Dawn E. Trussell. (2017) Parents' Leisure, LGB Young People and “When We Were Coming Out”. Leisure Sciences 39:1, pages 42-58.
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Kate Evans, Kellie A. Walters, Toni Liechty & Kelsey M. LeFevour. (2016) Women's experiences of physically active leisure during pregnancy. Annals of Leisure Research 19:4, pages 386-404.
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Liza Berdychevsky & Heather Gibson. (2015) Women's Sexual Sensation Seeking and Risk Taking in Leisure Travel. Journal of Leisure Research 47:5, pages 621-646.
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Julie Nicholson & Priya Mariana Shimpi. (2015) Guiding future early childhood educators to reclaim their own play as a foundation for becoming effective advocates for children's play. Early Child Development and Care 185:10, pages 1601-1616.
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Andrew Oftedal, Hyoung-Kil Kang & Ingrid Schneider. (2015) Perceptions and Responses to Conflict: Comparing Men and Women in Recreational Settings. Leisure Sciences 37:1, pages 39-67.
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Jeremy Robinett. (2014) Heteronormativity in Leisure Research: Emancipation as Social Justice. Leisure Sciences 36:4, pages 365-378.
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Karla A. Henderson. (2014) The Imperative of Leisure Justice Research. Leisure Sciences 36:4, pages 340-348.
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William Stewart. (2014) Leisure Research to Enhance Social Justice. Leisure Sciences 36:4, pages 325-339.
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Diana C. Parry & Tracy Penny Light. (2014) Fifty Shades of Complexity. Journal of Leisure Research 46:1, pages 38-57.
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Callie Spencer & Karen Paisley. (2013) Two Women, a Bottle of Wine, and The Bachelor. Journal of Leisure Research 45:5, pages 695-716.
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Adele Pavlidis. (2013) Writing Resistance in Roller Derby. Journal of Leisure Research 45:5, pages 661-676.
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Rasul A. Mowatt, Bryana H. French & Dominique A. Malebranche. (2013) Black/Female/Body Hypervisibility and Invisibility. Journal of Leisure Research 45:5, pages 644-660.
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