Week 8
Week 8: Women/Gender and Sport
How does gender impact on sport? What do Krech and co tell us about the struggle to control Women's athletics? To what extent are we moving to greater equality in sport?
Task: Find a short source (e.g. photo, news report etc) which illustrates the role of gender in Sport. These will be discussed in class.
Class reading:
Ch.1. Kari Fasting, 鈥楤reaking the Gender Stereotypes in Sport鈥�, Doll-Tepper, G., Koenen, K., & Bailey, R. (Eds.). (2016). Sport, Education and Social Policy: The state of the social sciences of sport (1st ed.). Routledge.
J枚rg Krieger, Michele Krech & Lindsay Parks Pieper (2020) 鈥極ur Sport鈥�: The Fight for Control of Women鈥檚 International Athletics, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 37:5-6, 451-472, DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2020.1754201 Here
Further reading:
Velija P. (2015) Cricket and Gendered National Identities: The Experiences of Women Who Play and Organise the 鈥楪lobal Game鈥�. In: Women鈥檚 Cricket and Global Processes. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Ch.18 on Women and Sport in Kenya: 脪j贸, A., Aderibigbe, I.S., & Kiprono, F.J. (Eds.). (2018). Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora (1st ed.). Routledge.
Sport and Women : Social Issues in International Perspective, edited by Gertrud Pfister, and Ilse Hartmann-Tews, Taylor & Francis Group, 2002. ProQuest Ebook Central,
.Ratna, A., & Samie, S.F. (Eds.). (2018). Race, Gender and Sport: The Politics of Ethnic 鈥極ther鈥� Girls and Women (1st ed.). Routledge.
Gori, G. (2004). Italian Fascism and the Female Body: Sport, Submissive Women and Strong Mothers (1st ed.). Routledge.
Muslim Women and Sport, edited by Tansin Benn, et al., Taylor & Francis Group, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, .