Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory
Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory is an introduction to current debates over gender, sexuality, queer and queer theory as they relate to sport. It is the first book to address this largely silent and often stigmatised aspect of sports culture, providing access to an emergent area of study within the sociology of sport.
With contributions from researchers on three continents, the book documents and explores gay, lesbian, transgender, and transsexual experiences of sport, combining theoretical analysis with recent and original research findings.
Part One introduces the concepts of queer, queer theory and queer approaches to understanding sport.
Part Two presents new research into experiences of sexuality in sports contexts, including amateur team sports and the Gay Games.
Part Three focuses on issues of sexuality, the body and identity in sport.
Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory provides a new critical and political perspective on queer and sports studies, setting the agenda for future discussion and research.
Jayne Caudwell is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport and Leisure Cultures at the Chelsea School, University of Brighton, UK.
Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
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Jennifer Hargreaves and Ian McDonald
University of Brighton
The Routledge Critical Studies in Sport series aims to lead the way in developing the multi-disciplinary field of Sport Studies by producing books that are interrogative, interventionist and innovative. By providing theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded texts, the series will make sense of the changes and challenges facing sport globally. The series aspires to maintain the commitment and promise of the critical paradigm by contributing to a more inclusive and less exploitative culture of sport.
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Sport, sexualities and queer/theory / edited by Jayne Caudwell.
p. cm. (Routledge critical studies in sport)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-415-36761-1 -ISBN 0-415-36762-X (pbk.)
1. Lesbians and sports. 2. Gays and sports. 3. Gay Games.
I. Caudwell, Jayne. II. Series.
GV708.8.S66 2006
796.08'664dc22
2006011002
ISBN 0-203-02009-X Master e-book ISBN
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ISBN10: 0-415-36761-1 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-415-36762-x (pbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-02009-x (ebk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-36761-5 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-36762-2 (pbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-02009-8 (ebk)
Contributors
Jayne Caudwell is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport and Leisure Cultures at the University of Brightons Chelsea School, England. Her teaching and research focus on gender, sexuality and womens experiences of football cultures. She is keen to explore the relationships between sport cultures and queer identity, methodology and theory.
Judy Davidson is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada where she teaches about sport, leisure and cultural studies. She is interested in questions about the production of genders and sexualities in various sporting and leisure contexts. Her current research focuses on sexuality, HIV/AIDS health discourses, and nationalisms at the Gay Games and Cultural Events.
Heidi Eng is Senior Research Fellow in gender/sexuality research at the University of Oslo, Centre for Womens Studies and Gender Research. She is currently involved in an interdisciplinary research group, The Queer Turn, which explores destabilising trends and practises relating to gender and sexuality in culture and research. She also teaches on Gender Studies and Sport/Leisure Studies programmes.
Dennis Hemphill, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance at Victoria University, Australia, undertakes teaching in the area of philosophy of exercise science, sport and physical education; and conducts research in the area of sport technology, inclusive curriculum, and professional ethics. He is editor of the anthology All Part of theGame: Violence and Australian Sport (1998) and co-editor (with C. Symons) of the anthology Gender, Sexuality and Sport: A Dangerous Mix (2002).
Nigel Jarvis is a Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management at the University of Brighton. His PhD research examines the meaning of sport among gay Canadian and British male athletes at the grass-root level of provision. He has also published on sponsorship and commodification issues related to gay sport events. In addition to his interest in gender, sexuality and sport, Nigels research and teaching is linked to the impacts of tourism, and issues centred on sport tourism, and sexuality and tourism.
Rebecca Lock is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her doctoral research explores how female athletes articulate and make sense of their experiences of pain in an athletic context.
Mary G. McDonald is Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Education, Health and Sport Studies and an affiliate with the Womens Studies programme at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. Her scholarship focuses on feminist and cultural studies of sport, the media and popular culture, and explores power relations as constituted along the axes of race, class, gender, nation and sexuality. She is co-editor with Susan Birrell of Reading Sport: Critical Essays on Power and Representation and is the guest editor of a special issue of the Sociology of Sport Journal titled Whitenessand Sport.
Gareth Owen is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at London South Bank University, England. His thesis looks at identities and emotions in sport.
Heather Sykes is at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include issues of sexuality, gender and the body in sport and physical education. She uses post-structural, psychoanalytic and queer theoretical frameworks to examine social, cultural and psychic dynamics of exclusion and discrimination. She has also produced a performed ethnography called Wearing The Secret Out about homophobia and homoeroticism in physical education. Her work has been published in the
