Sport and Gender Identities

<p>This important new book brings together gender studies and sexuality studies to provide original and critical insights into processes of identity formation in a wide range of sport-related contexts. The authors draw on contemporary debates concerning gender and identity from a range of disciplines including sociology social and cultural geography media studies and management studies to address key issues in masculinity femininity and sexuality: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Part 1: Representing masculinities in sport analyses media representations of men’s sports exploring the variety and complexity of concepts of masculinity. </li> <p> </p> <li>Part 2: Transgressing femininities in sport makes use of case studies to examine the experiences of women in male-dominated sporting arenas. </li> <p> </p> <li>Part 3: Performing sexualities in sport analyses the role of queer theory in sport studies explores experiences of and responses to homophobia in sport and examines the significance of the Gay Games. </li> </ul><p>This book will be of particular interest to students and academics working in sport studies leisure studies gender studies queer and sexuality studies social and cultural geography and sociology.</p>