Sport and Its Female Fans

Herausgeber: Mewett, Peter; Toffoletti, Kim

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why do women follow sports? How do they participate from the sidelines and what is the significance of this contribution? What can female fandom tell us about gender relations in sport? This book explores these and related questions by bringing together the varied strands of research being conducted internationally across the social sciences and humanities on this emerging and topical field. While sports spectatorship is a popular and well-respected site of analysis, no book-length, scholarly contribution documents women's experiences of sports fandom. For this reason, there is an obvious need for a book that offers researchers, students and non-professional readers an authoritative introduction to women's modes of sport support. Sport and Its Female Fans will be a landmark contribution in the field of sport research and in studies of sports fandom, making an original contribution to the growing, yet under-researched, area of female sports spectators.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 323g
• ISBN-13: 9780415629690
• ISBN-10: 0415629691
• Artikelnr.: 57004941

Autorenporträt

Kim Toffoletti is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Gender Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Peter Mewett is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Gender Studies at Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Peter Mewett and Kim Toffoletti 1. Stoic Observers or Fanatic
Fans? Women Ice Hockey Spectators in 1930s North America Russell Field 2.
The Ladies Stand Fiona Allon 3. 'Forever Ultras': Female Football Support
in Italy Rinella Cere 4. Women Fans of the Rodeo: Circuit Friends,
Helpmates and Buckle Bunnies Carol Y. Thompson and Craig J. Forsyth 5. The
Meaning of Sport in the Lives of "Hot" and "Cool" Female Fans of Football
and Rugby Union Stacey Pope 6. "Oh Yes, He Is Hot": Female Football Fans
and the Sexual Objectification of Sportsmen's Bodies Kim Toffoletti and
Peter Mewett 7. Fantasy, Fun and Identity Construction Among Female Fans of
Rugby Union Camilla Obel 8. Reading the Commodified Female Sports Fan:
Interrogating Strategic Dirt and Characterization in Commercial Narratives
Lawrence A. Wenner 9: How Do Women Talk Sports? Women Sports Fans in a Blog
Community Marie Hardin and Erin Whiteside 10. Empowerment Through Sport?
Female Fans, Women's Sport, and the Construction of Gendered Fandom
Lindsey Meân