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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.

The rise of the health, beauty and fitness industries in recent years has led to an increased focus on the body. Body image, gender and health are issues of long-standing concern in sociology and in youth studies, but a theoretical and empirical focus on the body has been largely missing from this field. This book explores young people's understandings of their bodies in the context of gender and health ideals, consumer culture, individualisation and image. Body Work examines the body in youth studies. It explores paradoxical aspects of gendered body work practices, highlighting the contradiction in men's increased participation in these industries as consumers alongside the re-emphasis of their gendered difference. It explores the key ways in which the ideal body is currently achieved, via muscularising practices, slimming regimes and cosmetic procedures. Coffey investigates the concept of 'health' and how it is inextricably linked both to the bodily performance of gender ideals and an increased public emphasis on individual management and responsibility in the pursuit of a 'healthy' body.This book's conceptual framework places it at the forefront of theoretical work concerning bodies, affect and images, particularly in its development of Deleuzian research. It will appeal to a wide range of scholars and students in fields of youth studies, education, sociology, gender studies, cultural studies, affect and body studies

Die Verfasserin geht davon aus, dass sich neue, wenn auch durchlässige Trennlinien zwischen den Geschlechtern im Sport entwickelt haben. Einerseits gibt es nur noch wenige Sportarten, von denen eines der beiden Geschlechter formal ausgeschlossen ist, wie zum Beispiel Männer vom Synchronschwimmen. Aufgrund der Entwicklungen in den letzten Jahrzehnten ist zu vermuten, dass die noch existierenden Zulassungsbeschränkungen für Männer oder für Frauen in naher Zukunft in allen Sportarten verschwinden. Andererseits scheinen sich die sportlichen Interessen der Geschlechter zunehmend auszudifferenzieren. Die Öffnung einer Sportart für beide Geschlechter bedeutet nicht, dass damit die Geschlechterunterschiede aufgehoben werden, im Gegenteil, in vielen Sportarten können neue und subtile Formen der Inszenierung von Männlichkeit und Weiblichkeit beobachtet werden. Wenn Geschlechtsidentität als eine Komponente von Gender und als komplexes Zusammenspiel von psychologischen und sozialen Faktoren sowie individuellen Bedingungen verstanden wird, dann bedeutet dies, dass sie im Prinzip verändert werden kann, dass dies aber ein schwieriger und langwieriger Prozess ist, nicht zuletzt, weil Geschlechtsidentität ein entscheidendes Kriterium für die Integration der Individuen in die Gesellschaft ist, und zwar einer Gesellschaft, die nach dem Prinzip der Zweigeschlechtlichkeit und der Geschlechterdichotomie organisiert ist. Es wird argumentiert, dass Sport einer der wenigen Bereiche in unserer High-Tech-Gesellschaft ist, in denen der Körper eine zentrale Rolle spielt, denn Sport bedeutet immer die Präsentation des Körpers und der körperlichen Leistung, von Stärke, Ausdauer und Aggressivität, aber auch von Schönheit und Eleganz. Deshalb ist Sport eine Bühne, auf der körperliche Unterschiede, Geschlechtsunterschiede und Geschlecht als Ganzes inszeniert und reproduziert werden: Doing Sport ist immer auch Doing Gender, bedeutet immer, sich selbst als Athletin und als Frau oder als Athlet und als Mann zu präsentieren, wobei in manchen Sportarten in Abhängigkeit von der jeweiligen "Sportkultur" eine Dramatisierung, in anderen eine Entdramatisierung des Geschlechts gefordert ist. (ICG2)

This book is all about reproductive genetics, a sociological concept developed to define the use of DNA-based technologies in the medical management and supervision of reproduction and pregnant women. In a searching analysis, Elizabeth Ettorre uncovers the hidden social processes involved in the development of these technologies. Focussing on prenatal screening, she explores how the key concepts of gender and the body are intertwined with the process of building genetic knowledge and some of the unintended consequences for women. These include the injection of biology into social relations

Women's lower participation in sports in Iran is perceived to be caused by broadly held patriarchal-cultural norms as well as the Iranian State's regulation of women's sports and visibility. This exploratory research uses feminist scholarship and qualitative methods to investigate the central factors forming women's perceptions of sports participation and gender. Based on interviews with twenty-six women participants, the study revealed that essentialist beliefs among the participants attributed muscularity, strength, and excessive size to men, and delicateness, beauty, and thinness to women. We draw on feminist perspectives on body politics to explore women's attitudes and explanations for (non)participation in sports. Discourses of appropriate femininity and gendered embodiment played important roles in these explanations. References to modesty, gender norms, and faith were peripheral in our findings on gendered aspects of physical activity and sports participation.

Fantasy sports are played by millions of people throughout the world. By 2017, it is predicted to be an industry with a turnover measured in billions of dollars. Recent scholarly attention has focused on the motivations for participating in fantasy sports leagues. In this article, we report on ongoing qualitative research being conducted with fantasy sports enthusiasts and their wives and partners in Australia. There has been little previous research into the attitudes of wives and partners toward the fantasy sports habits of enthusiasts. The enthusiasts studied here play in a long-running fantasy National Basketball Association (NBA) league that began in 1999 and continues in a relatively unchanged format. We argue that social factors are the primary motivation for participants in this league in terms of enhancing and maintaining existing friendships. How those social factors are practiced, however, has significant consequences for managing workplace and relationship demands.

Gender relations in sport : a history of controversy, progress, and resistance / Curtis Fogel -- Derby dames and gender games : empowerment and critical gender performance in the derby girl revolution / Lindy Hern -- Examining women's participation in football : narratives of complicity and contest / Kate Themen -- Bodies in play : physicality and gender in college women's ultimate Frisbee / Joanna Neville -- Women's roller derby as a unique gendered sports context / Maddie Breeze -- Motivations, limitations, and guilt : women who marathon / Jenny Lendrum -- Has she got "sex appeal"? : critical feminism and the Australian sports media / Chelsea Litchfield and Steve Redhead -- You play ball like a g-g-g-i-r-r-l-l! : student sttitudes about gender constructions in sport / Carolyn Fortuna -- Million dollar baby : cinematic sport at the expense of women? / Patricia Di Risio -- Feminising the "coming out" story of Casey Dellacqua : ambivalence, acceptance, and silence in the Australian sports media / Chelsea Litchfield and Jaquelyn Osborne -- Transforming hegemonic masculinities in Papua New Guinea : rugby league as a vehicle for the prevention of gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS / Rochelle Stewart-Withers and Adam S. Everill -- "Get up, and shut up, you play like Tarzan and moan like Jane" : Rugby Union men and their suppression of body anxiety / Natalie Darko -- The representation of masculinity and blame in discussions of domestic violence in the NFL / Jeremy Schnieder and Jessica Tinklenberg -- Accepting pain and injury as a career "norm" within the context of a masculinised Australian football subculture / Deborah Agnew and Murray J.N. Drummond -- The impact of gender role conflict on the quality of life in female athletes / Rachel Daltry -- Women in hegemonic environments : leading against the ods / Cecilia Ann Brantley -- Rwandan girls? : perspectives on their lived experiences of physical activity and sport in secondary schools : increasing participation by respecting rather than challenging gender norms / Lysanne Rivard -- Policing femininity : intersex discrimination in international athletics / Curtis Fogel -- Being older, female and athletic : personal and cultural notions of resistance and conformity / Rylee A. Dionigi

"Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'. But the visual glamour of the women of James Bond reveals more than the sexual objectification of female beauty. Through the original joint perspectives of body and fashion, this exciting study throws a new, subversive light on Bond Girls"--Back cover

"Who knew that doing the wrong things could make everything so right?" There can be little doubt that sports' dominant bioscientific articulation of the athletic body exerts a strong influence on coaches. Yet, on closer examination, this articulation and the practices it produces are not as straightforward as most coaches and scholars assume. Within the sociocultural study of coaching, scholars have drawn on Michel Foucault's disciplinary framework to analyze many unseen problems and unintended consequences associated with coaches' normal or everyday (bioscientific) practices. However, one significant aspect of Foucault's theoretical framework that has received less attention from coaching scholars is how power and discourse work together to produce several coaching "truths." To address this gap, in this article, we analyze the first author's experiences as an international middle-distance runner by showing and telling what problems and constraints are produced when coaches, and by association their athletes, defer to a dominant bioscientific articulation of the athletic body in their training. We conclude by discussing the transformative possibilities when these "truths" are broken.

This book addresses the major forms of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in children's sport, including sexual, physical, and psychological violence and neglect. It reviews the historical, sociocultural, and political influences on violence towards children, and sets out future agendas for research and practice to eliminate GBV in sport.

The book argues that for GBV to occur and be sustained over time, it must be facilitated by a system that enables this violence, protects the perpetrator, disables bystanders, silences the victims, and/or fails to provide a structure by which to address victims' or bystanders' concerns. Drawing on empirical research from across a range of disciplines, including sport sociology, sport psychology, developmental psychology, and coaching, and examining real life case studies of GBV in sport at all levels, the book makes a powerful case for radical change in our current systems of sport governance, safeguarding, and athlete welfare.

This is important reading for any student, researcher, policy-maker, coach, welfare officer or counsellor with an interest in sport, gender studies, safeguarding, criminology, or sociology.