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Researching gender across Physical Education (PE), sport and physical activity (PA) has firm associations with feminism. As a political movement for gender justice, feminist research examines the ways in which active bodies are dynamic and evolving. This feminist scrutiny is underpinned by scholarship that explores both formal educational and sporting contexts as well as informal activities. The term sport incorporates a range of physical practices and a review of extant literature demonstrates the persistence of gendered power relations and the consequences this has for PE, Sport and PA. While the disengagement of girls in formal PE has been recognised as a long-standing and on-going challenge, PE remains narrowly conceived and defined, often with negative consequences for the young people involved. Attempts to be inclusive in research practice expose a persistent dominance of the western/global north in knowledge production in sport, PE and PA scholarship and highlight prevailing discourses that impact negatively on engaging with complex issues in different contexts. Empirical research studies inform praxis whereby feminist researchers analyse barriers to participation across a wide range of contexts that are not limited to young people and that extend to policy matters far beyond PE, such as public health and numerous sites of negotiation for access at community level and to a vast array of informal activity. Key themes for researching active bodies include space and alternative contexts; shifting gender boundaries and disrupting binaries; intersections and difference; exclusion and inequalities; healthism and wellbeing agendas. In this chapter, examples including masculinities and dance, parkour and changing gender choices, swimming and transgender, and public health discourse illustrate complexity and contradictions that move debates beyond a 'women in sport' focus. The chapter is premised on feminist perspectives of sport and PE; the focus on active bodies enables informed discussion of the body, physicality and movement both theoretically and in relation to praxis.

This study employs a spatial analysis to critically examine gender relations within an Australian football and netball community sports club that has sought to address gender inequity and promote the participation of women across the club. Notable changes included increased female representation in the club's decision-making structures, growing numbers of female members, and the establishment of a women's and girls' football section. Using an in-depth case study that combined interviews and observations over a 6-month period, we investigated the impact these changes have had on transforming gender relations and in challenging perceptions of the club as a privileged space for its male members. The study utilized spatial and feminist theory to illustrate that, despite the club's efforts to change gender relations, men who are able to embody dominant forms of masculinity (i.e., high ability and able-bodied) continue to be privileged within the club environment. The article highlights the importance of spatial analysis in illuminating the ways in which various micro-level practices preserve dominant gender relations within community sports. The findings reinforce that although a greater number of women and girls are participating in community sport, this alone is not significantly reshaping gender relations. Policies seeking to promote gender equity in sport need to enforce changes in club environments in addition to focusing on increasing women's participation.

Male-dominated and sex segregated elite professional and amateur sport1 in North America constitutes a "sport nexus" (Burstyn, 1999; Heywood & Dworkin, 2003) that combines economic and cultural influence to reinforce and perpetuate gender injustice. The sport nexus is an androcentric sex-segregated commercially powerful set of institutions that is highly visible and at the same time almost completely taken for granted to the extent that its anti-democratic impetus goes virtually unnoticed. The sport nexus's hegemonic role in defining sporting norms (Coakley & Donnelly, 2004) means that its role in shaping lower level amateur and recreational sporting institutions and cultures is highly significant. Fraser (2007) defines gender justice, and hence democracy, in terms of "participatory parity," that is, material and cultural equality for women. The sport nexus itself is characterized by highly gendered occupational segregation (Coventry, 2004). It further contributes to gender injustice, homophobia and transphobia by promoting the ideology of the two sex system (Fausto-Sterling, 2000) and gendering citizenship as fundamentally male (Burstyn, 1999). Feminist strategies for sport reformation attempt to reduce or eradicate the role of the sport nexus in legitimating and perpetuating gender injustice. In this article I consider the potential of these strategies and conclude with a set of recommendations for transforming organized sport at both elite and recreational levels.

Gibt es einen body turn in der Soziologie? Dafür spricht, dass die Verkörperung sozialer Akteure und Strukturen zu einem zentralen Thema soziologischer Untersuchungen geworden ist. Die breite Hinwendung zum menschlichen Körper erfolgt dabei auf drei Ebenen: auf der Ebene des Körpers als Forschungsobjekt, Theoriekategorie und Erkenntnisinstrument. Die Beiträge des Bandes dokumentieren und forcieren diesen body turn besonders auf den ersten beiden Ebenen. Sie präsentieren aktuelle Entwicklungen in der deutschsprachigen Körper- und Sportsoziologie und entwerfen weiterführende Perspektiven für den body turn in der allgemeinen Soziologie.

Since 2006, when the Montenegrin Parliament declared independence, Montenegro had experienced impressive economic growth averaging an annual rate of 8% (until early 2009 when the effects of the global economic crisis began to have an impact) and an upward trend in human development indicators. Nonetheless, these economic trends have been accompanied by a rise in gender inequality in many institutional sectors. This study is the first to investigate that status of women in Montenegrin sport. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to examine gender differences in sport participation rates as well as women's experiences with both facilitators and barriers to sport involvement. The facilitators to sport participation were family support and a "love for the game." Participants in the focus groups discussed barriers including: lack of family support; gender division of labor; school–sport balance; and lack of resources. Evidence-based strategies to increase and improve women's sport participation in Montenegro are discussed.

Wie und wo werden die Frauen der Generation 50plus ihr zukünftiges Leben gestalten, welche Bedürfnisse haben sie an ihren sozialen und räumlichen Kontext und welche sozialen und planerischen Maßnahmen sind erforderlich, um diesen Vorstellungen gerecht zu werden? Nicht das Alter an sich, sondern der aktiv gestaltete Prozess des Alterns, d.h. der Prozess des Übergangs von der eigenen Erwerbsphase in den Ruhestand und/oder die Begleitung des Partners in dieser Phase stehen dabei im Fokus. Die Autoren und Autorinnen nehmen eine neue, in die Zukunft blickende Perspektive ein, um zukünftige Wohnortwünsche, Erwerbsorientierung, Freizeit- und (Weiter)Bildungsverhalten, Umweltbewusstsein, Körperlichkeit, psychische Belastungen u.a. dieser angesichts des demographischen Wandels bedeutenden sozialen Gruppe zu erfassen und in seiner Komplexität zu verstehen. Vertreten sind Beiträge der Soziologie, Sozial- und Stadtgeographie, (Sozial)Psychologie, Soziale Gerontologie, Ethische Medizin und der Geschichtswissenschaft, wobei meist eine anwendungsorientierte Perspektive eingenommen wird

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. What role does sports medicine play in today's society? Is it solely about treating sports injuries? Should it only be concerned with elite sport? This book provides a history of the relationship between sport, medicine and health from the mid-19th century to today. It combines the sub-disciplines of the history of medicine and the history of sport to give a balanced analysis of the role of medicine in sport and how this has evolved over the past two centuries. In an age where sports medicine plays an increasingly prominent role in both elite and recreational sport, this book provides a timely and clear analysis of its rise and purpose.

Most of the scientific literature concerning former high-level athletes is devoted to their professional retraining. There are comparatively few empirical studies dealing with their body representations and practices. Based on Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical framework, this article presents the results of an interview survey with 30 former high-level athletes. It shows that their relationships with their bodies result from their specific body trajectories, marked by family socialization and social background, sports socialization, injuries, and the possession of different forms of capital. In contrast to mondains, who have relatively stable body trajectories, oblates are marked by less homogeneous socialization and see their body trajectories divided between a form of personal dissatisfaction on the one hand and a feeling of saturation with their sport on the other.

The idea of the A.G.E.S. project - Addressing Gender Equality in Sport - was born in Pisa, in 2016, following the conference "Gender and Wellnes s in Sport" organized by the CO.RI. Institute - Communication & Research - of Livorno, with the patronage of the City of Pisa and Pisa European City of Sport 2016, the participation of the Fondazione Ordine degli Psicologi della Toscana and the Consiglio Cittadino per le Pari Opportunità di Pisa. The CO.RI. Institute, which has been dealing with gender studies and culture of equality for years, has promoted, in the conference held in Pisa, an opportunity for professionals and institutions to meet on the theme of gender equality in sport according to European guidelines. Professionals and representatives of bodies and institutions have participated in an active and motivated way, allowing a complex and in-depth analysis of the problem analysed. Due to the interest in the topics covered, expressed by all participants at the Conference, the CO.RI. Institute has agreed to collect the various contributions in a text, published by the P.O. Commission of the Region of Tuscany. As a consequence of the topicality and importance of the topics dealt with, the CO.RI. Institute involved the UISP of Pisa in the presentation of the Erasmus+ Sport "A.G.E.S" project with the intent to conduct a survey on the perception of gender stereotypes in sport. The UISP of Pisa has become the proposer of the project, in which two other relevant partners participated together with the CO.RI. Institute: Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia- UCAM (Spain) and University of Thessaly - UTH (Greece). The objective, shared by the partners, was to carry out a survey, through validated questionnaires, among a significant sample of girls and boys, adults and sport operators from the three countries involved, to verify the presence or absence of gender stereotypes and associated factors with respect to sport activity. The normative premises of reference are those of the European Union and its ...

The idea of the A.G.E.S. project - Addressing Gender Equality in Sport - was born in Pisa, in 2016, following the conference "Gender and Wellnes s in Sport" organized by the CO.RI. Institute - Communication & Research - of Livorno, with the patronage of the City of Pisa and Pisa European City of Sport 2016, the participation of the Fondazione Ordine degli Psicologi della Toscana and the Consiglio Cittadino per le Pari Opportunità di Pisa. The CO.RI. Institute, which has been dealing with gender studies and culture of equality for years, has promoted, in the conference held in Pisa, an opportunity for professionals and institutions to meet on the theme of gender equality in sport according to European guidelines. Professionals and representatives of bodies and institutions have participated in an active and motivated way, allowing a complex and in-depth analysis of the problem analysed. Due to the interest in the topics covered, expressed by all participants at the Conference, the CO.RI. Institute has agreed to collect the various contributions in a text, published by the P.O. Commission of the Region of Tuscany. As a consequence of the topicality and importance of the topics dealt with, the CO.RI. Institute involved the UISP of Pisa in the presentation of the Erasmus+ Sport "A.G.E.S" project with the intent to conduct a survey on the perception of gender stereotypes in sport. The UISP of Pisa has become the proposer of the project, in which two other relevant partners participated together with the CO.RI. Institute: Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia- UCAM (Spain) and University of Thessaly - UTH (Greece). The objective, shared by the partners, was to carry out a survey, through validated questionnaires, among a significant sample of girls and boys, adults and sport operators from the three countries involved, to verify the presence or absence of gender stereotypes and associated factors with respect to sport activity. The normative premises of reference are those of the European Union and its ...

This volume covers current issues, cutting-edge debates and new knowledge on women and sport. The range of topics extends from female coaches and women in sport to sexual harassment, from snowboarders to schoolgirls, and from physical education to football. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the current debates on gender and sport from a women's perspective, to share new knowledge about important issues, in particular about gender (in)equalities, and to present insights into the causes and effects of the debates and developments in the arena of women's sport. A special focus in all chapters will be on the perspective of change, and backgrounds, reasons and effects of gender arrangements will be analyzed by scholars who made major contributions to the development of a new gender order in sport and society. Other authors are younger scholars with new perspectives and approaches – who represent the new generation of gender researchers.