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 |18 pages
Introduction
part |65 pages
Historical perspectives
part |63 pages
Views from countries across the world
chapter |10 pages
The “Long March” of Women and Sport in Mainland China
chapter |9 pages
Rituals of the Masculine State
part |57 pages
Diversity and division
chapter |8 pages
Mapping Intersectionality and Whiteness
chapter |9 pages
“My Biggest Disability I'm a Male!”
chapter |8 pages
Religion, Culture and Sport in the Lives of Young Muslim Women
part |55 pages
Gender conformity and its challenges
chapter |9 pages
Can Gender Equality Become an Encumbrance?
part |74 pages
Homosexuality
chapter |10 pages
Overcoming Sexism and Homophobia in Women's Sports
chapter |9 pages
I Don't “Look Gay”
part |58 pages
Questioning and transgressing sex
chapter |9 pages
Joining the Team
chapter |11 pages
Male/Female or Other
part |48 pages
Power, control and abuse
part |54 pages
Gender and sexuality in the mediation of sport