Gender and Sport: A Reader

by Flintoff; Anne

• ISBN13: 9780415259538
• ISBN10: 0415259533
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-12-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Gender and Sport: A Readerbrings together influential articles that confront and illuminate issues of gender and sexuality in sport and includes pieces from many of the worlds leading figures in the sociology of sport. Representing a guide to key contemporary debates in the subject, the book closely examines the relationship between gender and sport in the context of, theoretical developments within sport feminism, the history of sport, the media, race and culture, sexuality, bodies, physicality and power, concepts of masculinity, policy and politics.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xv
PART I Theorizing gender	1	(48)
Introduction	3	(3)
The discourse of gender and sport: From femininity to feminism	6	(11)
M. Ann Hall
Just do... what? Sport, bodies, gender	17	(13)
Shari L. Dworkin
Michael A. Messner
Sport feminism: The contribution of feminist thought to our understandings of gender and sport	30	(19)
Sheila Scraton
Anne Flintoff
Seminar Questions	47	(2)
PART II Historical developments: The engendering of sport	49	(30)
Introduction	51	(2)
The Victorian cult of the family and the early years of female sport	53	(13)
Jennifer Hargreaves
Women and football -- a contradiction? The beginnings of women's football in four European countries	66	(13)
Gertrud Pfister
Kari Fasting
Sheila Scraton
Benilde Vazquez
Seminar questions	78	(1)
PART III The media and representation	79	(28)
Introduction	81	(2)
Denial of power in televised women's sports	83	(11)
Margaret Carlisle Duncan
Cynthia A. Hasbrook
Catching up with Men? Finish newspaper coverage of women's entry into traditionally male sports	94	(13)
Riitta Pirinen
Seminar questions	106	(1)
PART IV `Race' and ethnicity	107	(50)
Introduction	109	(2)
`Race', gender and the concept of 'difference' in feminist thought	111	(16)
Mary Maynard
Connecting ethnicity, gender and physicality: Muslim Pakistani women, physical activity and health	127	(14)
Sharon Wray
Sport, masculinity and Black cultural resistance	141	(16)
Ben Carrington
Seminar questions	156	(1)
PART V Men and masculinities	157	(32)
Introduction	159	(2)
Debates about men, new research on masculinities	161	(8)
R. W. Connell
Fraternal bonding in the locker room: A profeminist analysis of talk about competition and women	169	(20)
Timothy Jon Curry
Seminar questions	188	(1)
PART VI Sexualities	189	(34)
Introduction	191	(2)
Changing the game: Homophobia, sexism and lesbians in sport	193	(16)
Pat Griffin
Outlaws in sport and education? Exploring the sporting and education experiences of lesbian Physical Education teachers	209	(14)
Gill Clarke
Seminar questions	222	(1)
PART VII Bodies, physicality and power	223	(48)
Introduction	225	(2)
The embodiment of gender: Discipline, domination, and empowerment	227	(14)
David Whitson
Collapsing gender in competitive body building: Researching contradictions and ambiguity in sport	241	(14)
Camilla Obel
Men loving men hating women: The crisis of masculinity and violence to women in sport	255	(16)
Celia Brackenridge
Seminar questions	269	(2)
PART VIII Policy and politics	271	(33)
Introduction	273	(2)
The Windhoek call for action	275	(2)
Playing with patriarchy: The gendered dynamics of sports organizations	277	(15)
Margaret Talbot
Challenging the gendered space of sport: Women's ice hockey and the struggle for legitimacy	292	(12)
Nancy Theberge
Seminar questions	303	(1)
Index	304