Women, Pleasure and the Gambling Experience

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Routledge, 17. 2. 2016 - Počet stran: 156
Drawing on a broad range of historical and sociological literature, this book traces the everyday gambling experiences of a diverse group of women. It provides fascinating and original insights into the pleasures afforded to women through their gambling participation and draws on a variety of feminist literature to understand women's motivations and experience of play, and to examine the ways in which women negotiate their right to gamble without reprimand. Since gambling tends to be framed within moral discourses of danger and excess, this book offers a defence of women's decisions to gamble against an often hostile backdrop. It rewrites claims that gambling is 'meaningless' and reckless spending, by pointing instead to the highly complex strategies that women who gamble employ. Importantly, it adds to contemporary feminist debates about women's leisure by showing how women seize control of their lives in order to carve out a time and space for the pursuit of pleasure.
 

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1 Introduction to Researching Women Class and National Lottery Participation
1
2 Women Gambling Leisure and Consumption
17
3 Working Class Women Identity and Protest
39
The National Lottery as Normal and Routine in the Lives of Women Who Play
63
Metaphorical Leisure Spaces and National Lottery Play
89
Physical Leisure Spaces and National Lottery Play
107
7 Concluding Remarks
123
Bibliography
135
Index
147
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O autorovi (2016)

Emma Casey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Kingston, UK. She is the co-editor of Gender & Consumption: The Material Culture and Commercialisation of Everyday Life (2006).

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