Leisure practices as counter-depressants: Emotion-Work and emotion-play within Women's recovery from depression

Leisure Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-52

  Fullagar, Simone ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depression; Emotion; Post structural feminism; Recovery; Women's leisure

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ETHICS; FEMINISM; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; WOMENS STATUS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 38349014139     PISSN: 01490400     EISSN: 15210588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490400701756345     Document Type: Article

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