Sport and Gender Identities
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How are gender and sexuality constructed and contested in sport?This important new book brings together gender studies and sexuality studies to provide original and critical insights on identity formation within a wide range of sport-related relations and practices. Contested meanings of "gender" and "sexuality," the gender-power relations constructed in and through sport, and the connections between gender, sexuality and sport-related theories, policies and practices are made clear in this comprehensive and engaging text. The authors draw on key contemporary theoretical debates concerning gender, sport and identity that have been developed in a range of disciplines and subject fields including sociology, social and cultural geography, media studies and management studies. The book is structured into three sections, addressing issues of masculinity, "feminization" and sexuality: Part One, "Representing masculinities in sport" explores media representations in men's football, tennis, rugby and skate boarding. Part Two, "The "feminization" of male sports arenas" examines ways in which women have contested male-dominated sporting arenas of basketball, triathlon and cricket. Part Three, "The performance of sexuality in sporting spaces" analyses the development of queer theory in sport studies, the significance of homophobia in sport, the role of the Gay Games, and management practices in developing sport. This book provides the most comprehensive critique of gender and sexuality in sport to be published to date and will be of particular interest to students and academics working in sport studies, leisure studies, gender studies, queer and sexuality studies, social and cultural geography.
1 Introduction Cara AitchisonPart One: Representing masculinities in sport2 Watching the game: theorising masculinity in the context of media sport Dr Eileen Kennedy, University of Roehampton, UK3 Mediating masculinities: the production of media representation in sport Professor Garry Whannel, University of Luton, UK4 From rugby playing to skate boarding: alternate forms of masculinity Dr Lynda Johnston, Dr Robyn Longhurst and Dr Amanda BanksPart Two: The 'feminisation' of male sports arenas5 Women in sport management: the current state of play and visions of the future Dr Sally Shaw, University of Otago, New Zealand6 The contested spaces of women's basketball Tiffany Muller, University of Minnesota, USA7 Women in triathlon: technologies of the gendered self Dr Amanda Jones, De Montfort University, UK8 Women in cricket: contesting male sports arenas Dr Kate Russell, University of Gloucestershire, UKPart Three: The performance of sexuality in sporting spaces9 All queers together? Understanding and responding to homophobic bullying in sport Professor Celia Brackenridge10 Challenging homophobia and heterosexism in sport: the promise of the Gay Games Caroline Symons, Victoria University, Australia11 Gender, sexuality and queer theory in sport Dr Beth Kivel and Dr Corey Johnson, both at California State University, Sacramento, USA12 Conclusion Cara Aitchison
