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‘I never promised you a rose garden’: gender, leisure and home-making

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Abstract

This paper explores the importance of contemporary gardens as leisure sites and argues that leisure in general, and the garden in particular, play an important role in the process of homemaking. We also consider how the contemporary garden reflects wider social relations by examining how gender relations imbue gardens and gardening. The gendered meanings of gardens and the garden as a place where gender power relations are played out, are highly significant in the social construction of ‘home’. Using primary research data, the paper looks at what it is about the domestic garden that is important to both men and women, and how it contributes to homemaking. The findings show that there are conflicting uses and meanings of gardens which help to reveal the changing nature of gender relations in late modernity.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 183-197

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Leisure Studies (Volume 19, Issue 3)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/07/2000

Publication status

Published - 01/07/2000

ISSN

0261-4367

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/625199
  • Scopus: 0034046761

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