“Leisure?! For me?! ...”: Leisure Consumption by Low Income Women

• Autor(a) principal: Luna Batinga, Georgiana
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Rezende Pinto, Marcelo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Estudos do Lazer
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/rbel/article/view/19394

The relationship between leisure, culture and consumption is easily discernible, more than that, it is almost unlikely to dissociate them. The only problem is that it can be very interesting only for those who can get involved in this context. Therefore, this study reports the results of an empirical exploratory research that aimed to understand how low income women, heads of families, articulate, negotiate and construct the meanings related to leisure and leisure consumption in their daily lives, (of) associating it with consumption activities mediated by the market. Using a qualitative, ethnographic-based methodology, the conclusion was reached that there is a dimension of leisure consumption represented by activities mediated by the market, but there is also the presence of a subjective and socially constructed dimension in the defined leisure concept by these women.