Book chapter
Understanding the intersectionality of urban Indian women’s leisure experience
Women, leisure and tourism: Self-actualization and empowerment through the production and consumption of experience, pp.168-179
CAB International
2022
Abstract
This chapter explores the conflictual location of leisure in Indian women's lives that religion, caste, class, formal education, and financial independence affect deeply. Autoethnography is applied as a methodology to analyse research data gathered from five college-educated, urban, upper-caste Indian women including the author herself. Autoethnography allows for the interrogation of broader processes of inequalities that shape lived experiences, particularly the interpretation of sociocultural contexts of life. The participants perceived leisure time embedded in socializing, religious and cultural gatherings, and family and community events. These collectively form the place, space, and events of women's leisure. Without assigning leisure a defined personal time, their leisure experiences carried layered meanings. It was a location of conformity, resistance, negotiations, desire, conflict, and transformation. Outside the realm of traditional sociocultural experiences, the women were becoming conscious of choice and decision-making capacity in their personal leisure. Their narratives provide insights into the experience of leisure with the nuances of strategies and agency.
Details
- Title
- Understanding the intersectionality of urban Indian women’s leisure experience
- Authors
- Vinathe Sharma-Brymer (Author) - Sharma-Brymer Consultancy Services
- Contributors
- Linda Ingram (Editor) - George Mason UniversityKlára Tarkó (Editor) - University of SzegedSusan Slocum (Editor) - George Mason University
- Publication details
- Women, leisure and tourism: Self-actualization and empowerment through the production and consumption of experience, pp.168-179
- Publisher
- CAB International
- DOI
- 10.1079/9781789247985.0015; 10.1079/9781789247985.0000
- ISBN
- 9781789248012; 9781789247992
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99611508902621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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