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Article: An exploration of women's leisure within heterosexual romantic relationships.
- Article from:
- Journal of Leisure Research
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Feminist researchers have found that leisure can potentially be a site in which gender relations are reproduced and the hegemonic struggle is reinforced. Although the notion of hegemony was originally applied to class relations, referring to the process by which the dominant classes win consent to their domination (Green, Hebron & Woodward, 1990), this concept is also helpful for understanding gender relations as well (Green et al., 1990). That is, feminist researchers have used this term to help explain the structured imbalance of power between men and women (Henderson, Bialeschki, Shaw & Freysinger, 1996) and to explain the role that ideologies of gender play in ...