SPORT AND GENDER IDENTITIES: MASCULINITIES, FEMININITIES AND...; ED. BY CARA CARMICHAEL AITCHISON2006

This important new book brings together gender studies and sexuality studies to provide original and critical insights on identity formation within a wide range of sport-related relations and practices. Contested meanings of "gender" and "sexuality," the gender-power relations constructed in and through sport, and the connections between gender, sexuality and sport-related theories, policies and practices are made clear in this comprehensive and engaging text. The authors draw on key contemporary theoretical debates concerning gender, sport and identity that have been developed in a range of disciplines and subject fields including sociology, social and cultural geography, media studies and management studies. The book is structured into three sections, addressing issues of masculinity,...