Hargreaves - Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SPORT, GENDER AND SEXUALITY

The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively, demonstrates the intrinsic interconnectedness of sport, gender and sexuality. It introduces what is, in essence, a sophisticated sub-area of sport sociology, covering the field comprehensively, as well as signalling ideas for future research and analysis. Wide-ranging across different historical periods, different sports, and different local and global contexts, the book incorporates personal, ideological and political narratives; varied conceptual, methodological and theoretical approaches; and examples of complexities and nuanced ways of understanding the gendered and sexualized dynamics of sport. It examines structural and cultural forms of gender segregation, homophobia, heteronormativity and transphobia, as well as the ideological struggles and changes that have led to nuanced ways of thinking about the sport, gender and sexuality nexus. This is a landmark work of reference that will be a key resource for students and researchers working in sport studies, gender studies, sexuality studies or sociology.

Jennifer Hargreaves is retired as a full-time university professor. She is now a freelance writer/consultant/guest speaker. An early pioneer of sport sociology specializing in gender issues and the politics of the body, she has published prolifically with translations into different languages; given addresses all over the world; and worked as a guest professor in Germany, Hong Kong and Japan. Professor Hargreaves was awarded the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) best book of the year award for Sporting Females: Critical Issues in the History and Sociology of Sport (1994), the NASSS Distinguished Service Award (2008), and the North American Society for Sports History (NASSH) Max and Reet Howell Award (2006), following the publication of Heroines of Sport: the Politics of Difference and Identity. In 2011 Jennifer delivered The Sir Derek Birley Memorial Lecture for the British Society for Sport History (BSSH).

Eric Anderson is a sociologist and a professor of sport, masculinities and sexualities at the University of Winchester, UK. His research shows an increasingly positive relationship between gay athletes and sport, as well as a growing movement of heterosexual masculinities becoming softer and more inclusive. Professor Anderson has published twelve books, including Sport, Theory and Social Problems; Inclusive Masculinity and Sport; Masculinities and Sexualities; and 21st Century Jocks: Teamsport Athletes and Modern Heterosexuality.

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SPORT, GENDER AND SEXUALITY

Edited by

Jennifer Hargreaves and Eric Anderson

First published 2014

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Routledge handbook of sport, gender and sexuality / edited by Jennifer Hargreaves, Eric Anderson.

pages cm.(Routledge international handbooks)

ISBN 9780415522533 (hardback)ISBN 9780203121375 (ebk) 1. SportsSociological aspects. 2. SportsPsychological aspects. 3. AthletesSexual behavior. 4. Sports for women. 5. Sex role. 6. Gay athletes. 7. Lesbian athletes. I. Hargreaves, Jennifer, 1937 II. Anderson, Eric.

GV706.5.R88 2014

306.483dc23

2013029100

ISBN: 9780415522533 (hbk)

ISBN: 9780203121375 (ebk)

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CONTENTS

Jennifer Hargreaves and Eric Anderson

Dean Allen

Martin Polley

Patricia Vertinsky

Carol Osborne and Fiona Skillen

Maureen M. Smith and Alison M. Wrynn

Jean Williams

Elizabeth C.J. Pike and Jordan J.K. Matthews

Jinxia Dong

Keiko Ikeda

Hans Bonde

Simon Creak

Jorge Knijnik

Katia Rubio

Christopher Merrett

Mary G. McDonald

Aarti Ratna

L. Anima Adjepong and Ben Carrington

Andrew C. Sparkes, James Brighton and Kay Inckle

Nikki Wedgwood

Symeon Dagkas, Tansin Benn and Kelly Knez

Pamela Bettis and Natalie G. Adams

Kenneth R. Dutton

Hkan Larsson

Georgina Roy and Jayne Caudwell

Stacey Pope

Kasia Boddy

Pat Griffin

Rachael Bullingham, Rory Magrath and Eric Anderson

Mark McCormack

Scott Ogawa

Elizabeth Cavalier

Scarlett Drury

Caroline Symons

Terry L. Allison

Vanessa Heggie

Leslie Heywood

Claudio Tamburrini

Helen J. Carroll

Adam Love

Payoshni Mitra

Richard Pringle

George B. Cunningham, Andrew C. Pickett, E. Nicole Melton, Woojun Lee and Kathi Miner

Michele R. Gregory

Mike Hartill

Caroline Fusco

Jeffrey Hill

David Nylund

Edward M. Kian

David Rowe

A Sunday in Hell

Ian McDonald

Katharina Lindner

Natalie G. Adams is Director, New College, and Professor, Social and Cultural Studies in Education, at the University of Alabama (USA). She is co-author of Cheerleader! An American Icon (Palgrave Press 2003) and co-editor of Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In Between (Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates 2005), both with Pam Bettis. She is also co-author of Learning to Teach: A Critical Approach to Field Experiences (Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates 2005).

L. Anima Adjepong is a graduate student in the Sociology Department at the University of Texas, Austin. Her research interests are at the intersection of gender, race, and sexuality. She is currently studying how sport is a contested site for the (re)production of racialized and gendered identities.

Dean Allen is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a lecturer in Sports Management at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and a senior research associate of Stellenbosch University. Having worked at universities in the UK, Ireland and Australia, he has published widely on the history and politics of sport and society throughout the British Empire, most notably South Africa. His particular interests are colonialism, imperialism and the identity of sporting groups and nations. Dr Allen was the recipient of CPUTs Researcher of the Year award for 2012 and his book