This article explores how gender shaped activities on British adventure playgrounds, designated abandoned spaces where children engaged in free play with urban materials under loose adult supervision. It argues that as these bold experiments emerged in post-war Britain in a period when women’s traditional roles were beginning to be scrutinized and questioned they might have been expected to develop into spaces where traditional gendered norms were challenged, girls and boys offered different forms of play, and mothers drawn into wider community activism. This potential was limited through the emergence of the figure of the heroic playleader, a charismatic man capable of taming potentially delinquent urban youth through extreme displays of masculinity. Consequently t was not until the late 1970s, a decade after the establishment of an autonomous Women’s Liberation Movement, that adventure playgrounds began to challenge gendered play behaviors.

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“气氛是宽松和自由的”：英国冒险游乐场运动中激进主义的性别化，约。1948–70

本文探讨了英国冒险游乐场上的性别活动是如何塑造的，这些游乐场是指定的废弃空间，儿童可以在松散的成人监督下自由玩耍城市材料。它认为，随着这些大胆的实验出现在战后的英国，当时女性的传统角色开始受到审查和质疑，她们可能会发展成为传统性别规范受到挑战的空间，女孩和男孩提供了不同形式的玩耍，母亲们被吸引到更广泛的社区活动中。这种潜力因英雄角色领导者形象的出现而受到限制，他是一个有魅力的男人，能够通过极端的男子气概来驯服潜在的犯罪城市青年。因此 t 直到 1970 年代后期，