Toward chosen doing: Young working women's experiences, perceptions, and critical re-imagining of non-work time
dc.contributor.author | Kennedy, Catherine | |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Arts | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology | |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Received | |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | n/a | |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Dr. Liesl Gambold | |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Dr. Martha Radice | |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Dr. Karen Foster | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-11T15:56:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-12-11T15:56:43Z | |
dc.date.defence | 2024-12-10 | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-12-10 | |
dc.description | This qualitative Master's thesis explores young working women's experiences and perceptions of non-work time under late stage and digital capitalism. It offers insight into young working women's critical re-imagining of non-worktime toward the creation of an alternative, post-capitalist society. | |
dc.description.abstract | This study uses an exploratory approach to investigate the non-work time of young working women (YWW) in Halifax, Nova Scotia. By thinking about leisure as an alternate way of experiencing time (Marx, 1894; Pieper, 1948; Holloway, 2010), this research considers whether and how a distinct kind of doing – chosen doing (Holloway, 2010) – within a distinct kind of time – doing time (ibid.) – pushes back against the dominant experience of time characteristic of capitalism. In-depth qualitative interviews with eleven (n = 11) women revealed that the majority of YWW’s time is subsumed by necessity; constituted of productive and reproductive labour (Marx, 1894). In response, this study evokes YWW’s envisioning of alternative non-worktime grounded in desire: characterized by creativity, freedom, and spontaneity and enabled by community, connection, and reliance on others. This study regards these envisioned instances of chosen doing as critical sites for the transformation of non-worktime. | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10222/84752 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | Leisure | |
dc.subject | Non-work time | |
dc.subject | Young working women | |
dc.subject | Political economy | |
dc.subject | Time | |
dc.subject | Community | |
dc.subject | Creating | |
dc.subject | Freedom | |
dc.subject | Spontaneity | |
dc.title | Toward chosen doing: Young working women's experiences, perceptions, and critical re-imagining of non-work time |