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Author Blackshaw, Tony, 1960-

Title Leisure life : myth, masculinity and modernity / Tony Blackshaw
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 185 pages)
Contents Chapter 1 1Introduction The leisure life-world of 'the lads' -- chapter 2 2Deliberation Some questions of methodological approach -- chapter 3 3Initiation Welcome to the Stout man -- chapter 4 4Administration 'Us' and 'them': the administration of the Other 'lad' style -- chapter 5 5Communion Individually, together: the self-constitution of community 'lad' style -- chapter 6 Mythologisation -- chapter 7 7Felicitation Still together after all these years: on being together apart -- chapter 8 8Emancipation Fractured lives, certain leisure?
Summary Leisure Life awakens the sociological imagination. It offers a new approach to the study of masculinity and the ethnography of leisure, making it appropriate for courses in sociology, leisure, cultural and gender studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-175) and index
Notes English
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Subject Men -- England -- Leeds -- Social conditions
Men -- England -- Leeds -- Social life and customs
Working class -- England -- Leeds -- Social life and customs
Leisure -- Social aspects -- England -- Leeds
Masculinity -- England -- Leeds
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Leisure -- Social aspects
Masculinity
Men -- Social conditions
Men -- Social life and customs
Working class -- Social life and customs
England -- Leeds
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203986806
9780203986806
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