This volume outlines existing research relating to gender in physical culture. The empirically-driven case studies demonstrate, on the one hand, how boundary ‘work’ has taken and is taking place at the level of media, institutions, communities and individuals.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2017-04-28
Language: English
Number of Pages: 136
Edition: 1
Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
Women in many Westernised countries have better career opportunities than ever before and the percentage of women leaders in nearly every sector is on..
After the young South African athlete Caster Semenya won the 800m title at the 2009 World Championships she was obliged to undergo gender testing and ..
The book focusses on mass media presentations of gender and the framing of male and female athletes. It sheds new light on existing research about gen..
This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Through participant observations, sporting life-history interviews, and rese..
Why do women follow sports? What can female fandom tell us about gender relations in sport? This book explores these questions by bringing together th..
Scholars of academic sport studies have long debated the relationship between sport and gender. Modern sport forms have been shown to have historicall..
Drawing on qualitative studies of athletes and fraternity members, this book describes the rapidly changing world of masculinities among men in both t..
A collection of essays bringing together the different perspectives of women's studies and the social history of sport, using feminist ideas to explor..
In this first text to examine women and sport in Italy during the period 1861-1945, the role women's engagement in sporting activity had upon gender e..
In the past, sport, particularly football, has been defined as a male domain. Women’s interest stereotypically ranges from gentle tolerance to active ..
The book focusses on mass media presentations of gender and the framing of male and female athletes. It sheds new light on existing research about gen..