Week 5
Sport and Gender
Women and football
Questions
How did women’s football emerge in Britain. What barriers did it face?
What does Nadel suggest are the reasons for opposition to women playing football in Latin America?
How have things changed since 1991?
What did the 1918 World Cup reveal about women and football?
Class Reading
Williams, Jean. A Game for Rough Girls? : A History of Women's Football in Britain, Routledge, 2003. ProQuest Ebook Central, Ch.1, pp.25-44 [ebook]
Joshua Nadel, ‘The Antinational game? An Exploration of Women’s Soccer in Latin America’, in H. Fernandez, R. McKee Irwin and J. Poblete (eds.), Sport and Nationalism in Latin America (2015), Ch.2, pp.45-65 [ebook]
Read about Lea Campos:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59952796
On women allowed into football stadiums in Iran:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-44561909
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-50002658
Sexism at Russia 2018 world cup:
How did women’s football emerge in Britain. What barriers did it face?
What does Nadel suggest are the reasons for opposition to women playing football in Latin America?
How have things changed since 1991?
What did the 1918 World Cup reveal about women and football?
Important further reading:
Jayne Caudwell (2011) Gender, feminism and football studies, Soccer & Society, 12:3, 330-344, DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2011.568099
Jayne Caudwell, Women's football in the UK : continuing with gender analyses (2012)
Caudwell, Liston, Magee & Scraton (eds)Women, Football and Europe: Histories, Equity and Experiences. (2008)
Roxane Coche (2016) Promoting women’s soccer through social media: how the US federation used Twitter for the 2011 World Cup, Soccer & Society, 17:1, 90-108, DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2014.919279
Carrie Dunn, Female football fans : community, identity and sexism (2014) [ebook]
Carrie Dunn and Joanna Welford, 'Women's Elite Football', Ch.12 in Hughson, J. (Ed.), Moore, K. (Ed.), Spaaij, R. (Ed.), Maguire, J. (Ed.). (2017). Routledge Handbook of Football Studies. London: Routledge, https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9780203066430
Beth Fielding-Lloyd, Donna Woodhouse & Ruth Sequerra (2020) ‘More than just a game’: family and spectacle in marketing the England Women’s Super League, Soccer & Society, 21:2, 166-179, DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2018.1541799
Linda K. Fuller, Sport, Rhetoric and Gender (2009)
John Hughson et al, The Routledge Handbook of Football Studies (2016) Chs. 4,12,22, 28 [ebook]
Jeanes R., Magee J. (2013) Promoting Gender Empowerment through Sport? Exploring the Experiences of Zambian Female Footballers. In: Schulenkorf N., Adair D. (eds) Global Sport-for-Development. Global Culture and Sport Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London
Robert William Lewis (2020) The female football spectator in England, 1870–1914: a Flaneuse made visible?, Soccer & Society, 21:2, 121-136, DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2018.1521334
Louis Mansfield, Jayne Caudwell, Belinda Wheaton, Beccy Watson, editors., The Palgrave handbook of feminism and sport, leisure and physical education (2018) [Ebook]
Nadel, Futbol: Why Soccer matters in Latin America (2014)
J. Novick, H. Richards and R. Steen (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Football (2013), Ch.10 ‘Feminism and Football’ (Jean Williams) [ebook]
Gertrud Pfister and Stacey Pope, Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man's World (2018) [ebook]
Stacey Pope, The Feminization of Sports Fandom (2017) [ebook]
Jean Williams,‘The Girls of the Period Playing the Ball': The hidden history of women’s football, 1869–2015', Ch.4 in Hughson, J. (Ed.), Moore, K. (Ed.), Spaaij, R. (Ed.), Maguire, J. (Ed.). (2017). Routledge Handbook of Football Studies. London: Routledge, https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9780203066430
Jean Williams, Globalising Women’s Football: Europe, Migration and Professionalization (2014) [ebook]
Cricket
Topics to be discussed: women’s cricket
Questions
How has women's cricket developed so quickly?
Where are the opportunities for expansion, and what are the constraints?
What are the major challenges facing cricket?
TV The World of Women's Cricket (Al Jazeera 2016 documentary)
https://chiswickcalendar.co.uk/episode-70-seventy-years-of-revolution-in-english-womens-cricket/
Reading
Philippa Velija Women’s cricket and global processes (2015) (library ebook)
Raffaele Nicholson 'Confronting the "whiteness" of women's cricket : excavating hidden truths and knowledge to make sense of non-white women's experiences of cricket' in Race, gender and sport : the politics of ethnic "other" girls and women / edited by Aarti Ratna and Samaya F. Samie. (library ebook)