Preface, Alan Tomlinson vi
Introduction, Eileen Kennedy
and Helen Pussard xi
I Framing the Study of Leisure
1
The Society of Leisure: Myth
and Reality
Ken Roberts 3
Leisure and the Dreamworld
of Modernity
Chris Rojek 23
Serious Leisure - A Middle-Class
Phenomenon?
Stan Parker 37
Ethics in Leisure - An Agenda
for Research
Mike McNamee and Celia Brackenridge
43
II Leisure Policy and Provision 57
Public Policy and Leisure
Fred Coalter 59
The Politics of School Sport
Barrie Houlihan 73
The Sexist State: Leisure,
Labour and the Ideology of Welfare Policy
Tess Kay 103
III Leisure Identities 119
Holidays and the Discipline
of Industrial Labour: A Historian's View
J.K. Walton 121
The Politics of Women's Leisure
Rosemary Deem 135
Outlaws in Sport and Education?
Exploring the Sporting and Education Experiences of Lesbian Physical
Education Teachers
Gill Clarke 151
A Disabled Leisure Studies:
Theorising Dominant Discourses of the Employed Body, the Able
Body and the Active Body?
Cara Aitchison 169
IV Sites of Leisure 179
The Playing of Bingo: Industry,
Market and Working-class Culture
Rachael Dixey 181
Stepping into Aerobics?
Anne Flintoff, Sheila Scraton and
Peter Bramham 197
Culture, Social Difference
and the Leisure Experience: The Example of Consuming Countryside
David Crouch and Neil Ravenscroft
211
Sport Tourism at a Crossroad?
Considerations for the Future
Heather J. Gibson 229
Appendix LSA Conferences and
Publications 251
