Helene Joncheray - Women in Rugby

This is the first book to introduce key themes in the study of womens rugby from multidisciplinary perspectives, including history, sociology, gender studies, sport development and sport science.

Featuring contributions from leading researchers and former international players from across Canada, England, France, New Zealand and the USA, the book opens with a global history of womens rugby, locating the game in the wider context of the development of womens sport and exploring important social issues such as race, gender and violence. The book then looks at training and performance analysis at pitch level, helping the reader get a sense of the game from the ground up, before focusing on womens rugby through the eyes of others (such as rugby coaches), womens experiences of rugbys culture and promotional culture.

This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in womens sport, rugby, sport and social issues, sport development or sport history.

Helene Joncheray is Associate Professor at the University of Paris, France, on secondment as Researcher at the Sport, Expertise and Performance Laboratory of the French Institute of Sport (Institut National du Sport, de lExpertise et de la Performance). She is Vice President in charge of International Relations of the International Sociology of Sport Association.

Edited by Elizabeth Pike, University of Hertfordshire, UK

The Women, Sport and Physical Activity series showcases work by leading international researchers and emerging scholars that offers new perspectives on the involvement of women in sport and physical activity. The series is interdisciplinary in scope, drawing on sociology, cultural studies, history, politics, gender studies, leisure studies, psychology, exercise science and coaching studies, and consists of two main strands: thematic volumes addressing key global issues in the study of women, sport and physical activity; and sport-specific volumes, each of which offers an overview of womens participation and leadership in a particular sport.

Available in this series:

Womens Artistic Gymnastics

Socio-cultural Perspectives

Edited by Roslyn Kerr, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Carly Stewart and Gretchen Kerr

Women in Rugby

Edited by Helene Joncheray

For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/sport/series/WSPA

Edited by Helene Joncheray

First published 2021

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Joncheray, Helene, editor.

Title: Women in rugby / edited by Helene Joncheray.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Women, sport and physical activity | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: LCSH: Rugby football for womenSocial aspects.

Classification: LCC GV945.85.S65 W66 2021 | DDC 796.333082dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021003238

ISBN: 978-0-367-43695-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-032-04085-1 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-00554-4 (ebk)

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