working class women, gambling and the dream of happiness
working class women, gambling and the dream of happiness
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工人阶级女性、赌博和幸福的梦想
DOI：
10.1057/fr.2008.2
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发表时间：
2008
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影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Emma Casey
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作者：
Emma Casey
本文对性别、阶级与幸福观之间的关系进行了阐述。它借鉴了最近对参加英国国家彩票的工人阶级妇女的经验进行的研究。特别是，它探讨了赌博为工人阶级妇女提供了梦想“美好生活”的机会的概念-提高她们的生活和“改善”自己和家人的福祉。在本文中，幸福的话语将被检查，特别是工人阶级妇女倾向于转向赌博作为个人和情感满足的最后一搏的默认假设将受到挑战。本文认为，发展的文化和消费习惯的理解是必要的生产工人阶级妇女的日常生活的主观现实的一个更复杂的理解。通过与女性主义的体面，白日梦和幻想的帐户，本文将提出一个彻底的探索国家彩票发挥在工人阶级妇女的日常经验的幸福。
This paper offers an account of the relationship between gender, class and notions of happiness. It draws on recent research conducted into the experiences of working class women who play the UK National Lottery. In particular, it explores the notion that gambling offers working class women the opportunity to dream of the ‘good life’ – of enhancing their lives and of making ‘improvements’ to their own and their families’ well-being. In this paper, the discourse of happiness will be examined, and the tacit assumption that working class women in particular are prone to turning to gambling as a last ditch attempt to personal and emotional fulfilment will be challenged. The paper argues that developing understandings of culture and consumption practices is imperative for producing a more complex understanding of the subjective realities of working class women's everyday lives. By engaging with feminist accounts of respectability, daydream and fantasy, the paper will present a thorough exploration of National Lottery play in working class women's everyday experiences of happiness.