ABSTRACT

With an emphasis on women and transwomen athletes and exercisers of color, Feminist Applied Sport Psychology: From Theory to Practice introduces the reader to feminist, black feminist, and womanist sport psychology, offering an alternative and powerful approach to working with athletes. 

Covering core concepts, applied skills, and research methods, the book includes useful features throughout, such as discussion questions and definitions of key terms. It is organized into three sections covering, firstly, feminist theory, history, movements, and their importance in applied sport psychology; secondly, the intersection of race, class, and gender, and the integration of intersectional considerations into sport psychology; and finally, in-depth case studies of feminist sport psychology in action, each of which offers strategies for best practice.

Feminist Applied Sport Psychology: From Theory to Practice is important reading for feminist-centred students and practitioners in performance and sports domains, and exercise psychology and anybody with an interest in feminist approaches to working with women of diverse backgrounds.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

section I|15 pages

Feminist applied sport psychology

chapter 1|14 pages

What is feminism?

6Where have we been and where are we going?

chapter 3|10 pages

Yes, I am a feminist

My interwoven journey in sport and feminism

chapter 4|12 pages

Feminist sport psychology ethics

section II|16 pages

More than gender

chapter 6|15 pages

Black feminist thought

71Contextualizing black women’s sporting experiences

chapter 7|12 pages

Race, class and gender

Intersectionality in sport

chapter 8|9 pages

Mandating intersectionality in sport psychology

Centering LGBTQ women of color athletes

section III|9 pages

Essays on practice and research

chapter 9|8 pages

“Is this where we tell our stories?”

108Exploring black women’s health experiences through storytelling

chapter 10|10 pages

Asian Americans

The other white meat? Vacillating identities and Asian American women in sport

chapter 12|7 pages

A life of paradoxes

Transwomen of color in sport

chapter 13|7 pages

This girl can fight

chapter 14|8 pages

Women of color in the box

Safe spaces in CrossFit and HIIT

chapter 15|10 pages

Teaching as transgression

The meta-autoethnography of a fat, disabled, brown kinesiology professor

chapter 16|13 pages

Healing old wounds and imagining new futures

Feminist reflections from a straight, white cisman in sport psychology

chapter 17|7 pages

The unintentional feminist

chapter 18|8 pages

Recognizing I’m the elephant in the room

Whiteness, feminism, and working with women of color