Gender in Physical Culture (eBook, PDF)

Crossing Boundaries - Reconstituting Cultures
Redaktion: Barker-Ruchti, Natalie; Lindgren, Eva-Carin; Grahn, Karin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume outlines existing research relating to gender in physical culture. The empirically-driven case studies demonstrate, on the one hand, how boundary 'work' has taken and is taking place at the level of media, institutions, communities and individuals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351728553
• Artikelnr.: 54671125

Autorenporträt

Natalie Barker-Ruchti is Associate Professor in the Department of Food and Nutrition, and Sport Science, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She researches elite sport contexts in relation to gender, learning, career development, and sustainability. She works with longitudinal research methodology and prefers alternative data presentation techniques, including narrative writing. Karin Grahn is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Food and Nutrition, and Sport Science, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She researches youth sports from a gender perspective, including sport coaching textbooks, gender relations in co-educated sports, and body ideals among competitive athletes. Karin works with diverse qualitative methods and employs a discourse analytical framework. Eva-Carin Lindgren is Associate Professor in the Department of Food and Nutrition, and Sport Science, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her current research interests focus on how coaches construct children's team sports, how coaches maximise participation in youth sport, and how top-level coaches construct sustainable sport for elite athletes. She adopts perspectives of gender, alternative intersectionality and health promotion, and works with different qualitative methods.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Shifting, crossing and transforming gender boundaries in physical
cultures
Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Karin Grahn and Eva-Carin Lindgren
2. The illegal transgression: discourse analysis of the media perception of
the transgressive aesthetic of performance and display in top-level sports
Sandra Günter
3. Approaching a gender neutral PE-culture? An exploration of the phase of
a divergent PE-culture
Suzanne Lundvall
4. History of Swiss feminine gymnastics between competition and
feminization (1950-1990)
Grégory Quin
5. 'It has really amazed me what my body can now do': boundary work and the
construction of a body-positive dance community
Joanne Hill, Rachel Sandford and Eimear Enright
6. Gendered body ideals in Swedish competitive youth swimming: negotiating
and shifting symbolic boundaries
Karin Grahn
7. Health-related gender boundary crossing in youth elite sport
Astrid Schubring and Ansgar Thiel
8. Hanging up the shirt: an autoethnographic account of disengaging from a
social rugby culture
Dean Barker and Natalie Barker-Ruchti
9. Gender and the 'cultural turn' in the study of sport and physical
cultures
Susan J. Bandy