An Introduction to Leisure Studies

Defining Leisure and Leisure Studies Studying and Measuring Leisure Time, History and Leisure Caution - Children at Play Growing Up and Getting Out Staying in and Settling Down Divided Leisure: Leisure and Social Class Turning Points Home Alone: Demography and Ageing Leisure and the Future

There are textbooks galore, but there aren't many crafted as intelligently as this one. This book will change the way that students understand leisure. It will give them an easier entry to that place where difficult ideas fuse into something intelligible, where real understanding sits and the educated imagination is stirred. -- Tony Blackshaw In keeping with exploring the central theme of each chapter, relevant and contemporary case studies and exemplars have been included to allow students to engage with the material. Students will like these as will tutors as they can be used as a focus for discussion. Overall this book does achieve its aims, however this is not an introductory textbook that students will pick up and read through in the one go. This is a thought provoking book that students will return to in later years of their course and it will be used to stimulate ideas for project and dissertation work. -- Rita Carmouche, University of Huddersfield