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Gender, Politics and Change in Mountaineering

Moving Mountains

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Contains international research by academics &mountaineers and a gendered intersectional analysis

  • Explores inequality, difference and transformation in mountaineering spaces

  • Foreword was written by Julie Rak

Part of the book series: Global Culture and Sport Series (GCS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Transforming Leadership, Participation and Praxis: Climbing the Mountain of Equity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
    2. Leave Tracks: Gender, Discrimination, and Resistance in Mountaineering

      • Kate Evans, Dorothy L. Schmalz, Sasha C. Mader
      Pages 187-205
  3. Transformational Pedagogies: Creating New Spaces to Mountaineer

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 273-284

About this book

This book is the first edited collection to offer an intersectional account of gender in mountaineering adventure sports and leisure. It provides original theoretical, methodological, and empirical insights into mountain spaces as sites of socio-cultural production and transformation.

The book shows how gender matters in the twenty-first century, and illustrates that there is a need for greater efforts to mainstream difference in representations and governance structures if we are to improve equality in adventure, sporting and leisure spaces.

The interdisciplinary volume represents scholars from theoretical as well as applied perspectives across adventure, tourism, sport science, sports coaching, psychology, geography, sociology and outdoor studies. 

Keywords

  • Outdoor leisure
  • Adventure Sport
  • Adventure and gender
  • Adventure environments
  • Women climbers

Editors and Affiliations

  • York St John University, York, UK

    Jenny Hall

  • Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK

    Emma Boocock

  • Deakin University, Victoria, Australia

    Zoë Avner

About the editors

Jenny Hall is Senior Lecturer at York St John University, UK. She is a cultural geographer interested in embodied experiences in tourism. Her research explores social justice, gender, emotion and affect in adventure and heritage spaces. 

Emma Boocock is Lecturer in the Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Northumbria University, UK. Her main research interests are documenting the embodied experiences of women in green and blue spaces, and understanding how people and places influence our affective practices.

Dr Zoë Avner is Lecturer in the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at Deakin University, Australia. Her research draws on poststructuralist and feminist methodologies to explore athlete and coach learning, power and coaching, and coaching ethics. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender, Politics and Change in Mountaineering

  • Book Subtitle: Moving Mountains

  • Editors: Jenny Hall, Emma Boocock , Zoë Avner

  • Series Title: Global Culture and Sport Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29945-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29944-5Published: 13 June 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29947-6Due: 27 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29945-2Published: 12 June 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2662-3404

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-3412

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 284

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sport Science , Sociology, general, Gender Studies, Human Geography

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eBook USD 109.00
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Hardcover Book USD 139.99
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