Overview
- Provides an original and comprehensive overview of more than four decades of feminist scholarship in sport, leisure and physical education.
- Features contributions from internationally renowned authors and emerging feminist scholars
- Includes seminal writings that have profoundly influenced current thinking in feminist work
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This handbook provides an original, comprehensive and unparalleled overview of feminist scholarship in sport, leisure and physical education. It captures the complexities of past, current and future developments in feminism while highlighting its theoretical, methodological and empirical applications. It also critically engages with policy and practice issues for women and girls taking part in sport and leisure pursuits and in physical education provision.
The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education is international in scope and includes the work of established and emerging feminist scholars. It will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, gender studies, sport sciences, and sports business and management.Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (54 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Challenges and Transformations in Women’s Leisure, Sport and Physical Education Movements
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Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies and Method
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Louise Mansfield is Research Lead for Welfare, Health and Wellbeing (Institute of Environment Health and Societies) and Senior Lecturer in Sport, Health and Social Sciences at Brunel University London, UK. Her research focuses on the relationship between sport, physical activity and public health.
Jayne Caudwell is Associate Professor and Head of Research in the Department of Events and Leisure at Bournemouth University, UK. She is best known for her work on gender and sexualities in leisure and sport cultures.
Belinda Wheaton is Associate Professor in Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. The main focus of her research has been the politics of identity in informal and lifestyle sport.
Beccy Watson is Reader in the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her research engages with interrelationships across gender, race and class in the social analysis of leisure and sport.Â
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education
Editors: Louise Mansfield, Jayne Caudwell, Belinda Wheaton, Beccy Watson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53318-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53317-3Published: 23 November 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53318-0Published: 06 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 888
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Feminism, Women's Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Sociology of Culture