Defining the idea of a “hobby” is surprisingly hard For example you might think low risk is part of it but many hobbies are high risk, like sailing. More so than dangerous professions. Or low impact. Many of the biggest inventions came from hobbyist tinkering.
I think hobbies emerged in milieus with a leisure class where neither husband or wife did much work. They had servants for all that.
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Probably true, but I think there's a large component of US hobby culture that is based in this dynamic, particularly around gender and use of space - stuff like the suburban garage as pseudo-workshop, etc. Also interested in how hobbies break down gender-wise overall though.
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From here Kimmel moves into the invention of the idea of the "den" (mancave) around this time, a masculine space for "refuge" from the femininity of home life. But man-cave isn't very good for hobbies, more of a consumption space.
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