Women in Utilizing Free Time and Body Practices

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10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_9How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Body practices; Free time utilization; Women

ABSTRACT

This article discusses how women, especially young women, utilize their free time. There are some interesting things related to the body practices carried out by girls to reconstruct their subjectivity. Body practices are studied and used as part of feminist bodywork in the context of girls’ recreational culture. This paper aims to map the analysis of femininity based on young girls as citizens who are active, free to choose, and consume. How the multiple practices on their bodies in the process towards the ideal femininity requires competence and knowledge of appearance culture. Based on data collected from various seminars, and focus group discussions on 10 young girls, it was found that consumption allocation, body management, and beautification are the main elements of their leisure time use. Their recreational (pleasure) activities include reading magazines, gadgets, and TV movies, shopping for clothes and food, physical activity for exercise and dieting, applying beauty products, make-up, and changing hairstyles. This study uses practical body theory from Barker about diet and a slim body, Bene Ratih about white skin and body beauty, and Marcel Danesi about clothing and makeup. Physical culture is not primarily a need from the body, but beyond that, namely lifestyle, fashion, taste, and prestige. By describing the recreational activities (free time) of these young girls, researchers, practitioners, and parents must provide educational education that has a positive effect on the appearance culture of girls in their practice of daily life.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ani Rostiyati
AU  - Lina Herlinawati
AU  - Nina Merlina
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - Women in Utilizing Free Time and Body Practices
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 49
EP  - 53
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_9
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_9
ID  - Rostiyati2022
ER  -