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, ‘Breaking the Gender Stereotypes in Sport”, 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. https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9781315404868

Jörg Krieger, Michele Krech & Lindsay Parks Pieper (2020) ‘Our Sport’: The Fight for Control of Women’s 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 ‘Global Game’. In: Women’s Cricket and Global Processes. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1057/9781137323521_5

Ch.18 on Women and Sport in Kenya: Òjó, A., Aderibigbe, I.S., & Kiprono, F.J. (Eds.). (2018). Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora (1st ed.). Routledge. https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9781351119900

Sport and Women : Social Issues in International Perspective, edited by Gertrud Pfister, and Ilse Hartmann-Tews, Taylor & Francis Group, 2002. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=238724

.Ratna, A., & Samie, S.F. (Eds.). (2018). Race, Gender and Sport: The Politics of Ethnic ‘Other’ Girls and Women (1st ed.). Routledge. https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9781315637051

Gori, G. (2004). Italian Fascism and the Female Body: Sport, Submissive Women and Strong Mothers (1st ed.). Routledge. https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9780203483619

 Muslim Women and Sport, edited by Tansin Benn, et al., Taylor & Francis Group, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=557239.