Gender and Sport: A Reader

This reader contains a range of highly influential articles that confront and illuminate issues of gender and sport whilst reflecting on the contribution of international feminist scholarship to the study of sport.
This volume brings together articles that confront and illuminate issues of gender and sexuality in sport. It represents a guide to key contemporary debates in the subject, whilst offering a comprehensive theoretical and historical overview of the field. The contributors examine closely the relationship between gender and sport in the context of theoretical developments within sport, feminism, the history of sport, the media, race and culture, sexuality, bodies, physicality and power, concepts of masculinity, policy and politics.