Gökben Demirbaş is Lecturer in the Political Science and Public Administration Department at Trakya University, Turkey. She received her sociology PhD degree from the University of Glasgow in 2018. Her research interests include different aspects of the sociology of leisure with a particular focus on gender, class, everyday life, culture, urban space, youth, and citizenship.

• 1. Introduction, 2. The Structure & Agency Debate: Identifying the Margins of Feminist Leisure Research, 3. Respectability: A Framework for Studying Leisure, 4. Context Matters: A History of the Changing Modes of Respectable Femininity in Modern Turkey, 5. Spatial and Communal Characteristics of Respectable Femininity: An Introduction to the Empirical Analysis, 6. Responsibility: Or Labouring for Leisure, 7. Contested Spaces: Family, Community and Women’s Leisure, 8. Solidarity and Status: Neighbouring as an Everyday Leisure Activity, 9. Concluding Thoughts

Gökben Demirbaş is Lecturer in the Political Science and Public Administration Department at Trakya University, Turkey. She received her sociology PhD degree from the University of Glasgow in 2018. Her research interests include different aspects of the sociology of leisure with a particular focus on gender, class, everyday life, culture, urban space, youth, and citizenship.

• 1. Introduction, 2. The Structure & Agency Debate: Identifying the Margins of Feminist Leisure Research, 3. Respectability: A Framework for Studying Leisure, 4. Context Matters: A History of the Changing Modes of Respectable Femininity in Modern Turkey, 5. Spatial and Communal Characteristics of Respectable Femininity: An Introduction to the Empirical Analysis, 6. Responsibility: Or Labouring for Leisure, 7. Contested Spaces: Family, Community and Women’s Leisure, 8. Solidarity and Status: Neighbouring as an Everyday Leisure Activity, 9. Concluding Thoughts

Gökben Demirbaş is Lecturer in the Political Science and Public Administration Department at Trakya University, Turkey. She received her sociology PhD degree from the University of Glasgow in 2018. Her research interests include different aspects of the sociology of leisure with a particular focus on gender, class, everyday life, culture, urban space, youth, and citizenship.

• 1. Introduction, 2. The Structure & Agency Debate: Identifying the Margins of Feminist Leisure Research, 3. Respectability: A Framework for Studying Leisure, 4. Context Matters: A History of the Changing Modes of Respectable Femininity in Modern Turkey, 5. Spatial and Communal Characteristics of Respectable Femininity: An Introduction to the Empirical Analysis, 6. Responsibility: Or Labouring for Leisure, 7. Contested Spaces: Family, Community and Women’s Leisure, 8. Solidarity and Status: Neighbouring as an Everyday Leisure Activity, 9. Concluding Thoughts