Women, sport, and culture
By: Susan Birrell, Cheryl L. Cole, editors.
Contributors: Birrell, Susan.; Cole, Cheryl L.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Champaign, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Sports for women -- Social aspects; Sex discrimination in sports; Feminism
Description: Women, Sport, and Culture features 24 selections from various feminist positions that examine the relation between sport and gender. The articles serve as a marker of where feminist sport studies has been as a field and a guidepost for what may be the most promising theoretical directions in the future.

This comprehensive collection of articles is organized into five sections: part I introduces and provides an overview of feminist theories that have examined gender, women, and sport; part II addresses the gendered organizational order of sport and explores the practices through which women in institutionalized sport are managed; part III explores how certain practices associated with sport actively degrade women and how women have alternately appropriated and opposed what they perceive to be oppressive and unjust practices; part IV examines the role of the media in circulating and legitimizing dominant meanings of sport, women, gendered bodies, and sexuality; and part V interrogates heterosexism and homophobia in sport.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.