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Betsy Wearing won the Society of Women Writers NSW Biennal Book Awards for non-fiction for her book Gender Reclaimed, which was launched by Margaret Whitlam in 1988 at the University of Sydney.

Biography
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Early life
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Expanded description
She co-authored a journal article on gender and the concept of community that has been highly influential among Australian sociologists and researchers in Community Studies, and a book she co-edited two years later was launched by Margaret Whitlam, wife of the ex-Prime Minister Goff Whitlam.

Her book Leisure and Feminist Theory, was the first in-depth examination of leisure theory from a feminist perspective, generating so much interest that it ran to 17 editions when it was first published in 1998.

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2007 winner Society of Women Writers, New South Wales, Awards —Biennial Book Awards — Non-Fiction

Marriage and children
Her son is Stephen Wearing, currently Associate Professor in the Management Discipline Group at the University of Technology, Sydney, and they have published a range of articles together on leisure and tourism.

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Published works
Betsy Wearing, Ideology of Motherhood, A Study of Sydney Suburban Mothers,, Routledge, 1984

Helen Marchant & Betsy Wearing (eds) Gender Reclaimed: Women in Social Work, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1986

Betsy Wearing & Stephen Wering, "‘All in a day's leisure’: Gender and the Concept of Leisure",Leisure Studies, 7(2), pp. 111-123, 1988.

Betsy Wearing, Gender: The Pain and Pleasure of Difference, , Longman, Melbourne, 1995

Betsy Wearing, Leisure and Feminist Theory, Sage, 1998.

Betsy Wearing, Beulah Lowe and the Yolngu People,B. Wearing with the help of Coast Biographers, Terrigal, NSW, 2007.

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