Reimagining the Gendering of Sport highlights the increasing public attention women's sport is receiving whilst examining the challenges that female athletes continue to face. The book provides a critical assessment of areas where reform is needed and presents creative reimaginings of a more equitable sporting world.
Reimagining the Gendering of Sport highlights the increasing public attention women's sport is receiving whilst examining the challenges that female athletes continue to face. The book provides a critical assessment of areas where reform is needed and presents creative reimaginings of a more equitable sporting world.
Leading experts outline ongoing issues in contemporary girls' and women's sport, such as fewer opportunities and sponsorships, pay gaps, less television airtime and unequal playing conditions. Chapters are framed in critical feminist perspectives, engaging with intersectional and interdisciplinary understandings of the triumphs and challenges in women’s sport. Theory is uniquely paired with personal narratives from diverse athletes across all levels of sport to humanize their experiences. The book advocates for an end to gendered cultural expectations, illustrating how representational leadership and athlete activism can create empowering environments in girls’ and women’s sport.
Scholars and students of sport studies (e.g., sport sociology, sport psychology, and sport management) will greatly benefit from this timely book, as will those studying gender and cultural studies. The book is also a vital resource for women’s sport advocates who toil to make the field more inclusive.
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Both testament and response to entrenched gender inequities in sport, the carefully curated contributions from some of the worlds leading scholars in Reimagining the Gendering of Sport explores the existential question of what it truly means to be human in sport and for sport to be a humane place for every person. The content speaks to the athlete in all of us, to the fundamental need to be able to move freely, unencumbered by the constraints of societal expectations that deny the ability of individuals to realize their full promise and potential, in other words, to live as they were meant to live. For those with an interest in the study of sport at any level and within any context, this book offers intellectually rigorous work delivered with a deeply compassionate sensibility. It dares to envision what a sporting landscape looks like released from misogyny and patriarchy, replaced with an embrace of inclusive frameworks. -- Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ithaca College, USA In these challenging times, where DNA sex tests for women are back in the Olympic circus, this book is not only essential but vital to the future of sport. All the contributors have the courage to ask questions that are essential if we want sport to really become welcoming and accessible to all. This is a must read to all who wish to become part of a major shift that is absolutely needed. -- Guylaine Demers, Université Laval, Canada
Contents
Preface xvii
1 The courage to dismantle sport as we know it 1
Tanya Prewitt-White and Vikki Krane
PART I CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF GENDER
2 Reconceptualizing sport: embracing critical feminist theory
and intersectionality 18
Jennifer J. Waldron
3 Visionary athletic governance: lessons from student-athletes
and the AIAW 36
Diane L. Williams
4 Reimagining Title IX as a civil rights statute aimed at
antisubordination rather than equality 52
Erin Buzuvis
PART II EXPERIENCES OF GENDER IN SPORT
5 Yes, still talking about this! Body politics, agency, and
embodiment practices in womens sport 70
Kate Russell
6 Transforming the quagmire: reimagining girls sport and
physical activity 88
Katie Sullivan Barak
7 Media and gender in sport 107
Dunja Antunovic
8 Responding to sexual misconduct with a feminist restorative
justice lens 126
Tanya Prewitt-White and Tanya Raquel
PART III LIVED EXPERIENCES IN SPORT ONE
9 The fat girl playing tackle football with boys 146
Kasie Murphy
10 Becoming a black mermaid 150
Tiffany Monique Quash
11 Thinner = winner 154
Emma Calow
12 Run like the wind: playing soccer with the boys 158
Madeline Wells
13 The lies we tell: exploring the intersections of gender and
parasport 162
Staci Mannella
14 The feeling 166
Anonymous Author
PART IV IDENTITIES IN SPORT
15 Intersex and trans athletes: who gets to be a female athlete? 170
Elizabeth A. Sharrow
16 Amplifying joy: celebrating the queerness of womens sport 188
Erica V. Bennett and Vikki Krane
17 Decentering whiteness in womens sport 206
Emma Calow
18 Disability and gender in sport and physical activity 225
Toni Louise Williams and Andrea Bundon
PART V LIVED EXPERIENCES IN SPORT TWO
19 The in-between 243
Kenj R. Campbell
20 Overweight mom to Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter 247
Autumn Rena Martin
21 Black on ice 250
22 A dream reimagined: reclaiming my story 254
Stephanie Wheeler
23 The power and poison of achievement 258
Gloria H. M. Park
PART VI MOVING FORWARD
24 We do not need leaders, we need coactors 263
Joanna Line, Jill Kochanek and Anna Baeth
25 We wont quit: athlete activism from erasure to empowerment 279
Bernie Compton and Jen Fry
26 The end of sport as we know it 297
Vikki Krane and Tanya Prewitt-White
Edited by Vikki Krane, Professor Emeritus, School of Applied Human Development, Bowling Green State University, USA, Tanya Prewitt-White empowers individuals and organizations through her work as a speaker, consultant, and coach
