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82 Judy Whiteparts of the world’. There is substantial scope for one of these projects to beinvolved with the continuing conundrum of ‘women’s leisure: what leisure?’To finish as I began, with Germaine Greer:The personal is political still. The millennial feminist has to be aware thatoppression exerts itself in and through her most intimate relationships,beginning with the most intimate, her relationship with her body . . . Shespends too much time waiting for things that will not happen, hoping forsupport and reinforcement that are withheld, apologising for mattersbeyond her control, longing for closeness to the ones she loves and beingreconciled to distance . . . The second wave of feminism, rather thanhaving crashed on to the shore, is still far out to sea, slowly and inexorablygathering momentum. None of us who are alive today will witnessmore than the first rumbles of the coming social upheaval. Middle-classwestern women have the privilege of serving the longest revolution, notof directing. The ideological battles that feminist theorists are engaged inare necessary but they are preliminary to the emergence of female power,which will not flow decorously out from the universities or from theconsumerist women’s press.(Greer 1999: 330)References and further readingAitchison, C. (2000) Poststructural feminist theories of representing Others:a response to the ‘crisis’ in leisure studies’ discourse. Leisure Studies 19(3):127–45.Anderson, R. (1975) Leisure: An Inappropriate Concept for Women? Canberra:Department of Tourism and Recreation.Apter, T. (1985) Why Women Don’t Have Wives: Professional Success andMotherhood. London: Macmillan.Bell, D. and Valentine, G. (1995) Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities.London: Routledge.Bernard, M. and Meade, K. (eds) (1993) Women Come of Age. London: EdwardArnold.Bordo, S. (1993) Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. LosAngeles: University of California.Bowles, G. and Klein, R. (eds) (1983) Theories of Women’s Studies. London:Routledge and Kegan Paul.Butler, J. (1993) Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. London:Routledge.Cabinet Office (2000) Women’s Incomes over the Lifetime: Report to the Women’s Unit.London: HMSO.Chambers, D. (1986) The constraints of work and domestic schedules on women’sleisure. Leisure Studies 5(3): 309–25.Code, L. (1993) Taking subjectivity into account. In L. Alcoff and E. Potter (eds)Feminist Epistemologies. London: Routledge.