Women and leisure on the agendas of Brazilian social movements

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper results from an investigation aiming to map possible relations between women and leisure on the agendas defending Brazilian women's rights inside Brazilian social movements. Using Deleuze and Guattari's terms, we establish connections between literature review, document analysis, and narratives provided by Brazilian social movements’ leaders, which pointed to macro and micropolitical aspects that generate difficulties and possibilities for women's leisure to be part of the Brazilian social movements’ agendas. Some of those difficulties are the place and the role of women in society, the breadth of women's identity markers, women's working hours, public spaces not equally perceived between men and women, subjectivity surrounding the definition of leisure, and commercialization of leisure, interfering in the possibilities of access and the non-recognition of leisure as a right. The findings also provide lines of escape as directions about the future of feminist leisure.