Using data derived from two provincewide surveys of the general public of Alberta, Canada,
two empirical questions were addressed:(a) What constraints to leisure do women and men …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a feminist analysis of the literature concerning leisure
constraints. The assumptions of the paper are that a “leisure gap” exists in many women's …

Recognizing the male bias in previous leisure theory and research, feminist researchers
have introduced new conceptualizations to address the gender-based issues of women's …

This paper examines three approaches to the analysis of women's leisure, and discusses
ways in which the ideas and concepts from these different approaches can be integrated …

Underlying much of the literature on leisure constraints is the assumption that the constraints
that people report do, in fact, act as barriers to participation. However, to date, there has …

This study addresses the continuing relevance of race as a persistent societal issue in the
US, and tackles criticism (;;) regarding the lack of models to guide research that links race …

Many recent models of leisure constraints make no mention or measurement of race at any
level of analysis despite its continuing importance in US society. This study investigated the …

This paper suggests that leisure conceptualized as time or activity alone poses problems for
gender. The underlying idea of leisure as freely-chosen, self-actualizing experience is …

The origins of research on leisure constraints can be traced back for at least a century, but it
is only in the last two to three decades that social scientists in North America have …

The purpose of this paper was threefold: 1) to describe past methodological approaches to
the study of leisure constraints and evaluate the impact of these approaches on theoretical …