Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality

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.

Introduction

1  Sport, gender and sexuality: surveying the field
Jennifer Hargreaves and Eric Anderson

PART I

Historical perspectives: links between past and present

2  ‘Games for the boys’: sport, empire and the creation of the masculine ideal
Dean Allen

3  Sport, gender and sexuality at the 1908 London Olympic Games
Martin Polley

4  The dancing body, sexuality, and the emergence of the ‘New Woman’
Patricia Vertinsky

5  Women and sport in interwar Britain
Carol Osborne and Fiona Skillen

6  History of gender and gender equality in the Olympics and Paralympics
Maureen M. Smith and Alison M. Wrynn

7  The gendered governance of Association Football
Jean Williams

8  A post-colonial critique of the international ‘movements’ for women and sexuality in sport
Elizabeth C.J. Pike and Jordan J.K. Matthews

PART II

Views from countries across the world

9  The ‘long march’ of women and sport in mainland china: revolution, resistance and resilience
Jinxia Dong

10  From Ryōsai-kenbo to Nadeshiko: women and sports in Japan
Keiko Ikeda

11  Sumo and masculine gigantism
Hans Bonde

12  Rituals of the masculine state: sports festivals, gender and power in Laos and Southeast Asia
Simon Creak

13  Gendered barriers to Brazilian female football: twentieth century legacies
Jorge Knijnik

14  The participation of women in Brazilian Olympic sport
Katia Rubio

15  Perpetual outsiders: women in athletics and road running in South Africa
Christopher Merrett

PART III

Diversity and division

16  Mapping intersectionality and whiteness: troubling gender and sexuality in sport studies
Mary G. McDonald

17  British Asian female footballers: intersections of identity
Aarti Ratna

18  Black female athletes as space invaders
L. Anima Adjepong and Ben Carrington

19  Disabled sporting bodies as sexual beings: reflections and challenges
Andrew C. Sparkes, James Brighton and Kay Inckle

20  ‘My biggest disability is I’m a male!’ The role of sport in negotiating the dilemma of disabled masculinity
Nikki Wedgwood

21  Religion, culture and sport in the lives of young Muslim women: international perspectives
Symeon Dagkas, Tansin Benn and Kelly Knez

PART IV

Gender conformity and its challenges

22  Interrogating the body in contemporary cheerleading
Pamela Bettis and Natalie G. Adams

23  Sexuality and the muscular male body
Kenneth R. Dutton

24  Can gender equality become an encumbrance? The case of sport in the Nordic countries
Håkan Larsson

25  Women and surfing spaces in Newquay, UK
Georgina Roy and Jayne Caudwell

26  Female football fans and gender performance
Stacey Pope

27  Watching women box
Kasia Boddy

PART V

Homosexuality: issues and challenges

28  Overcoming sexism and homophobia in women’s sports: two steps forward and one step back
Pat Griffin

29  Changing the game: sport and a cultural shift away from homohysteria
Rachael Bullingham, Rory Magrath and Eric Anderson

30  Contextualizing homophobic language in sport
Mark McCormack

31  100 missing men: participation, selection, and silence of gay athletes
Scott Ogawa

32  I don’t ‘look gay’: different disclosures of sexual identity in men’s, women’s, and co-ed sport
Elizabeth Cavalier

33  Gay sports spaces: transgressing hetero(/homo)normativity and transforming sport?
Scarlett Drury

34  The Gay Games: a beacon of inclusion in sport?
Caroline Symons

35  The Pink Flamingo: a gay aquatic spectacle|
Terry L. Allison

PART VI

Questioning and transgressing sex

36  Subjective sex: science, medicine and sex tests in sports
Vanessa Heggie

37  Affective forms: neuroscience, gender and sport
Leslie Heywood

38  Queer genes? The Bio-amazons project: a response to critics
Claudio Tamburrini

39  Joining the team: the inclusion of transgender students in United States school-based athletics
Helen J. Carroll

40  Transgender exclusion and inclusion in sport
Adam Love

41  Male/female or other: the untold stories of female athletes with intersex variations in India
Payoshni Mitra

PART VII

Power, control and abuse

42  Foucauldian examinations of sport, gender and sexuality
Richard Pringle

43  Psychological safety and the expression of sexual orientation and personal identity
George B. Cunningham, Andrew C. Pickett, E. Nicole Melton, Woojun Lee and Kathi Miner

44  Sportswork: the role of sports in the work place
Michele R. Gregory

45  Suffering in gratitude: sport and the sexually abused male child
Mike Hartill

46  Transcending the (white) straight mind in sport
Caroline Fusco

PART VIII

Gender and sexuality in the mediation of sport

47  Sporting fictions: in praise of masculinity?
Jeffrey Hill

48  Transmitting softer masculinity: sports talk radio and masculinity
David Nylund

49  Sexuality in the mediation of sport
Edward M. Kian

50  Gender, media and the sport scandal
David Rowe

51  Portraying sporting masculinity through film: reflections on Jorgen Leth’s
A Sunday in Hell
Ian McDonald

52  Gender trouble in female sports films
Katharina Lindner

Index

Christopher Merrett

PART III