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This book explores and critically assesses the challenges and experiences of LGBTQ people within sport in Europe. It presents cutting-edge research data and insights from across the continent, with a focus on sport policy, sport systems, and issues around anti-discrimination and inclusion. The book introduces the theoretical and methodological foundations of research into LGBTQ people in sport and then presents in-depth comparative surveys of systems and experiences in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the UK, and Spain. A final section considers the effectiveness of policy in this area and motives for participation, and looks ahead at future directions in research, policy, and practice. Tracing the frontiers of our understanding of the experiences of LGBTQ people in contemporary Europe, this is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport policy, LGBTQI studies, gender and sexuality studies, or cultural studies.

On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, one of the leading scholars of the sociology of sport in Germany, Ilse Hartmann-Tews, considers research on ageing, somatic culture and participation in sport in the contexts of diversity and gender. She reflects first on the increasing interest with regard to research on ageing and somatic culture, and that the broader issues of 'gender blindness' and the 'paradox of the absent body' have also been evident in the sociology of sport research agenda. The challenges for this agenda can be seen in three key areas of enquiry: (1) the social dimensions and determinants of successful aging, (2) understandings of gendered bodies and the 'double standard of ageing', and (3) understandings of diversity in ageing and intersections with gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation. It is argued that future research on cultural representations of ageing in the sociology of sport need to focus on narratives, images, and media representations of ageing and somatic culture.

"In diesem Beitrag wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit die Sportentwicklung in Europa eine geschlechtsneutrale Einbeziehung der Bevölkerung aufweist. Zum einen wird dies mit Blick auf die Ausdifferenzierung von Turnen und Sport im 18./ 19. Jahrhundert in Deutschland, Frankreich und England beantwortet, zum anderen mit Blick auf die aktuelle Situation der allgemeinen Sportpartizipation und der Repräsentanz von Frauen in Führungspositionen." (Autorenreferat)