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Toward chosen doing: Young working women's experiences, perceptions, and critical re-imagining of non-work time

dc.contributor.authorKennedy, Catherine
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicable
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Arts
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Sociology & Social Anthropology
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalReceived
dc.contributor.external-examinern/a
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicable
dc.contributor.thesis-readerDr. Liesl Gambold
dc.contributor.thesis-readerDr. Martha Radice
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorDr. Karen Foster
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-11T15:56:43Z
dc.date.available2024-12-11T15:56:43Z
dc.date.defence2024-12-10
dc.date.issued2024-12-10
dc.descriptionThis 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.abstractThis 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.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10222/84752
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectLeisure
dc.subjectNon-work time
dc.subjectYoung working women
dc.subjectPolitical economy
dc.subjectTime
dc.subjectCommunity
dc.subjectCreating
dc.subjectFreedom
dc.subjectSpontaneity
dc.titleToward chosen doing: Young working women's experiences, perceptions, and critical re-imagining of non-work time

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