Abstract
Neither the relationship between drinking and leisure throughout an alcoholic person's life course nor the influence of alcohol on a woman's leisure has been extensively systematically studied. The purpose of this project was to explore and describe leisure for recovering alcoholic women who were progressing to long‐term sobriety. The data from nine in‐depth interviews were analyzed within themes: How being female played into descriptions of leisure and the use and abuse of alcohol and the changes and modifications associated with claiming leisure over the alcoholism life course. A grounded theory approach was used, resulting in two conclusions that helped to explain the leisure of women recovering from alcoholism: (a) Social and psychological factors of being female and operational definitions of leisure are similar for recovering alcoholic women as for women in the population in general and (b) women who experience recovery from alcoholism over the life course are engaged in a process of regaining contr...
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