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Leisure for Leisure

Critical Essays

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Chris Rojek

    1. Routledge, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Chris Rojek
      Pages 1-11

  3. Theoretical Perspectives on Leisure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Models of Work, Models of Leisure

      • H. F. Moorhouse
      Pages 15-35

    3. The Figurational Approach to Leisure and Sport

      • Eric Dunning
      Pages 36-52

    4. Sigmund Freud and the Pursuit of Pleasure

      • Harvie Ferguson
      Pages 53-74

    5. Simmel and Leisure

      • David Frisby
      Pages 75-91

    6. Leisure and ‘The Ruins of the Bourgeois World’

      • Chris Rojek
      Pages 92-112

  4. Leisure, Power and Planning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Leisure Policy: An Unresolvable Dualism?

      • Fred Coalter
      Pages 115-129

    3. The Promise and Problems of Women’s Leisure and Sport

      • Jennifer Hargreaves
      Pages 130-149

    4. Leisure and the Informal Economy

      • Jeff Bishop, Paul Hoggett
      Pages 150-170

    5. Drugs and Leisure, Prohibition and Pleasure: From Subculture to the Drugalogue

      • Nicholas Dorn, Nigel South
      Pages 171-190

    6. Leisure Time and Leisure Space

      • Chris Rojek
      Pages 191-204

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 205-211
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About this book

A collection of critical essays which reject the assumptions that leisure relations are relations of freedom, self determination, life satisfaction and growth. The essays look at power and policy issues in leisure relations and attempt to produce a critical sociology of the subject.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Routledge, UK

    Chris Rojek

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Leisure for Leisure

  • Book Subtitle: Critical Essays

  • Editors: Chris Rojek

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19527-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Chris Rojek 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-46170-9Published: 01 November 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-19527-5Published: 01 November 1988

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 211

  • Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure

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