ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively, demonstrates the intrinsic interconnectedness of sport, gender and sexuality. It introduces what is, in essence, a sophisticated sub-area of sport sociology, covering the field comprehensively, as well as signalling ideas for future research and analysis. Wide-ranging across different historical periods, different sports, and different local and global contexts, the book incorporates personal, ideological and political narratives; varied conceptual, methodological and theoretical approaches; and examples of complexities and nuanced ways of understanding the gendered and sexualized dynamics of sport. It examines structural and cultural forms of gender segregation, homophobia, heteronormativity and transphobia, as well as the ideological struggles and changes that have led to nuanced ways of thinking about the sport, gender and sexuality nexus. This is a landmark work of reference that will be a key resource for students and researchers working in sport studies, gender studies, sexuality studies or sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Introduction
chapter |16 pages
Sport, gender and sexuality: surveying the field
part |2 pages
PART I Historical perspectives: links between past and present
chapter |9 pages
Sport, gender and sexuality at the 1908 London Olympic Games
chapter |9 pages
Women and sport in interwar Britain
chapter |9 pages
The gendered governance of Association Football
part |2 pages
PART II Views from countries across the world
chapter |9 pages
From Ryo¯sai-kenbo to Nadeshiko: women and sports in Japan
chapter |6 pages
Sumo and masculine gigantism
chapter |10 pages
The participation of women in Brazilian Olympic sport
chapter |10 pages
Perpetual outsiders: women in athletics and road running in
part |2 pages
PART III Diversity and division
chapter |9 pages
British Asian female footballers: intersections of identity
chapter |10 pages
Black female athletes as space invaders
part |2 pages
PART IV Gender conformity and its challenges
chapter |9 pages
Interrogating the body in contemporary cheerleading
chapter |8 pages
Sexuality and the muscular male body
chapter |10 pages
Women and surfing spaces in Newquay, UK
chapter |9 pages
Female football fans and gender performance
chapter |9 pages
Watching women box
part |2 pages
PART V Homosexuality: issues and challenges
chapter |8 pages
Contextualizing homophobic language in sport
chapter |10 pages
The Gay Games: a beacon of inclusion in sport?
chapter |9 pages
The Pink Flamingo: a gay aquatic spectacle
part |2 pages
PART VI Questioning and transgressing sex
chapter |9 pages
Subjective sex: science, medicine and sex tests in sports
chapter |10 pages
Affective forms: neuroscience, gender and sport
chapter |9 pages
Queer genes? The Bio-amazons project: a response to critics
chapter |8 pages
Transgender exclusion and inclusion in sport
part |2 pages
PART VII Power, control and abuse
chapter |9 pages
Foucauldian examinations of sport, gender and sexuality
chapter |10 pages
Sportswork: the role of sports in the work place
chapter |9 pages
Suffering in gratitude: sport and the sexually abused male child
chapter |8 pages
Transcending the (white) straight mind in sport
part |2 pages
PART VIII Gender and sexuality in the mediation of sport