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> <p>1. Queering the Pitch <strong>Part 1: Masculinity and Violence On and Off the Pitch</strong> 2. Sport as Pedagogy: The Triad of Men's Violence 3. Masculinities and the Production of Media Representations in Sport 4. Men Viewing Violence: Masculinities and the Consumption of Violence in Boxing <strong>Part 2: The 'Feminisation' of Male Sports Arenas </strong> 5. Women and Ice Hockey: Challenges to a Masculine Preserve 6. Women Who Play Football: Is There Space for Lesbian Gender? 7. Gender and Identity in Women's Body Building <strong>Part 3: The Performance of Sexuality in Sporting Spaces</strong> 8. Homophobia as Constraint in Sport: The 'Gay Games' as Resistance 9. Crossing Boarders: Lesbian Physical Education Students and the Struggle for Sexual Spaces 10. Substituting Positions: The Changing Sexuality of a Women's Sports Team Part Four: Theorising Sexuality, Sport and Space 11. Gender, Sexuality and Queer Theory in Sport 12. The Feminisation of the American Sport Media 13. Sport, Gender and Geographies of Post-Sport</p>