Gender violence and leisure in Spain

The aim of this work is to discover how life improvement strategies can be developed for women who have suffered gender-based violence. Discussions from the World Leisure and Recreation Association (WLRA) and other research groups focus on leisure benefits for personal growth and community development. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, leisure emerges as a third generation human right, so that this work intends to strengthen this line of research – from development of a doctoral thesis –, which is going to connect leisure, education, and gender violence. We are trying to advance new ways for reducing the negative effects of violence against women in their daily life. To do this, we take Spanish Law No. 1/2004 on gender violence as reference. This is a social problem that is hindering women and girls’ autonomous development and that must be included in the public agenda.