Chapter 2: An examination of female exceptionalism in early leisure placemaking activities

Document Type

Book Section

Publication Date

2022

Publication Title

Women, Leisure and Tourism: Self-actualization and Empowerment through the Production and Consumption of Experience

Publisher

Exeter Premedia Services Pvt Ltd

Publisher Location

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK

Abstract

Placemaking is defined as the intentional design of public space to benefit the health and happiness of the citizens. While this concept is generally considered to have originated in the 1960s with the work of Jones and Whyte, there is evidence that the basics of placemaking were present in the late 19th and early 20th century. The role of female pioneers in hospitality and leisure placemaking has remained relatively unexplored. These women who made industry-changing contributions to catering and culinary arts, food safety, hospitality architecture, and hotel operations helped to create both public and private spaces for leisure that promoted the basic tenets of placemaking. Their narratives will be examined in the context of historical benchmarking for leisure placemaking in this chapter, which details the lives, accomplishments, and lasting legacies of the foremothers of the hospitality industry. Provided in a case study format, this chapter provides leisure educators with materials for the classroom while examining the concept of placemaking from a historical viewpoint. This chapter provides insight for future research into the role of women in placemaking, both historically and in contemporary times.

Keywords

care work, market economics, two-sector system, hospitality, leisure

Disciplines

Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations

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