This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key
social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the
insights of Marxism, feminism, Weber, Elias, Simmel, Nietzsche and
Baudrillard to produce a survey - and rethinking - of leisure
theory. At the same time he presents a radical critique of the
traditional centring' of leisure, on escape', freedom' and choice'.
He describes the relations between capitalism and leisure, the
meaning of free time for workers in a capitalist system, and the
gendered nature of leisure. He then discusses the social
construction of leisure under modernity and the main competing
arguments. Finally he examines postmodernity. Revealing how leisure
practices have responded t
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