Womens Artistic Gymnastics
This book lifts the lid on the high pressured, complex world of womens artistic gymnastics. By adopting a socio-cultural lens incorporating historical, sociological and psychological perspectives, it takes the reader through the story and workings of womens artistic gymnastics.
Beginning with its early history as a feminine appropriate sport, the book follows the sport through its transition to a modern sports form. Including global cases and innovative narrative methods, it explores the way gymnasts have experienced its intense challenges, the complexities of the coach-athlete relationship, and how others involved in the sport, such as parents and medical personnel, have contributed to the reproduction of a highly demanding and potentially abusive sporting culture.
With the focus on a unique womens sport, the book is an important read for researchers and students studying sport sociology, sport coaching, and physical education, but it is also a valuable resource for anyone interested in the development of sporting talent.
Roslyn Kerr is Associate Professor in Sociology of Sport and Dean of the Faculty of Environment, Society and Design at Lincoln University in New Zealand.
Natalie Barker-Ruchti is Associate Professor in the Division of Sport Science, School of Health Sciences, rebro University, Sweden.
Carly Stewart is Head of Department of Sport and Event Management at Bournemouth University, UK.
Gretchen Kerr is Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Women, Sport and Physical Activity
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
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/sport/series/WSPA.
First published 2020
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Natalie Barker-Ruchti is Associate Professor in the Division of Sport Science, School of Health Sciences, rebro University, Sweden.
Elizabeth Booth is Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management at the University of Greenwich, London, UK. She is also Editor and Author of the blog Rewriting Russian Gymnastics.
Michele Carbinatto is Lecturer in Sport Pedagogy and Gymnastics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Francesca Cavallerio is Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology in the School of Psychology and Sport Sciences, at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
Georgia Cervin is Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Western Australia.
Frank Jacobs is Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Health, Nutrition and Sport at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands.
Sophia Jowett is Professor of Psychology in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, UK.
Gretchen Kerr is Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Roslyn Kerr is Associate Professor in Sociology of Sport and Dean of the Faculty of Environment, Society and Design at Lincoln University in New Zealand.
Annelies Knoppers is Professor (emerita) in Sociology and Management of Sport at the Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Melanie Lang is Senior Lecturer of Child Protection in Sport, in the Department of Social Sciences at Edge Hill University, UK.
Rhiannon Lord is Lecturer in Sociology of Sport in the Division of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Abertay University, UK.
Joanne McVeigh is Senior Lecturer in Physical Education and School Sport in the Department of Sport and Physical Activity at Edge Hill University, UK.
Aalaya Milne is a Masters student in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Myrian Nunomura is Professor in Sports Pedagogy and Artistic Gymnastics at the School of Physical Education and Sport of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Elizabeth Pike is Professor and Head of Sport, Health and Exercise at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Nuno Pimenta is Assistant Professor in Sociology of Sport and Coordinator of the Sports Training Bachelor, at the Polytechnic Institute of Maia (IPMAIA) in Portugal.
Claudia Pinheiro is an Assistant Professor in Sociology of Sport at the University Institute of Maia (ISMAI) in Portugal and a collaborative researcher in the Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development (CIDESD).
James Pope is Principal Academic in English and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK.
Astrid Schubring is Associate Professor in Sport Science at the Department of Food and Nutrition, and Sport Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
