Women in Action Sport Cultures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction: Contextualizing Women in Action Sport Cultures

   • Holly Thorpe, Rebecca Olive

   Pages 1-20

3. Researching Gender in Action Sport Cultures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Looking Back, Moving Forward? Reflections from Early Action Sport Researchers

      • Holly Thorpe, Rebecca Olive, Becky Beal, Douglas Booth, Jason Laurendeau, Catherine Palmer et al.

      Pages 23-44

   3. Surfing Together: Exploring the Potential of a Collaborative Ethnographic Moment

      • Rebecca Olive, Holly Thorpe, Georgina Roy, Mihi Nemani, lisahunter, Belinda Wheaton et al.

      Pages 45-68

4. Gender Relations and Negotiations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Sporting Gender Relations, Life Course Transitions and Implications for Women Rock Climbers

      • Victoria Robinson

      Pages 71-89

   3. ‘Don’t Be a Douche’: An Introduction to Sex-Integrated Roller Derby

      • Adele Pavlidis, James Connor

      Pages 91-109

   4. Parkour, Gendered Power and the Politics of Identity

      • Belinda Wheaton

      Pages 111-132

   5. The ‘Girl Effect’ in Action Sports for Development: The Case of the Female Practitioners of Skateistan

      • Holly Thorpe, Megan Chawansky

      Pages 133-152

5. Female Action Sport Identities and Lived Experiences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Negotiating Moral Terrain: Snowboarding Mothers

      • Lucy Spowart, Lisette Burrows

      Pages 155-174

   3. ‘No One Wants to Mess with an Angry Mom’: Females’ Negotiation of Power Technologies Within a Local Skateboarding Culture

      • Matthew Atencio, Becky Beal, ZaNean McClain, Missy Wright

      Pages 175-191

   4. Coming Together and Paddling Out: Lesbian Identities and British Surfing Spaces

      • Georgina Roy

      Pages 193-211

   5. The Experiences of ‘Brown’ Female Bodyboarders: Negotiating Multiple Axes of Marginality

      • Mihi Nemani, Holly Thorpe

      Pages 213-233

6. Action Sports in Transition: Consumption, Technology, Risk and Desire

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

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   2. Technology, Equipment and the Mountain Biker’s Taskscape

      • Kath Bicknell

      Pages 237-258

   3. The Changing Face of Ultimate Frisbee and the Politics of Inclusion

      • Hamish Crocket

      Pages 259-278

   4. Girl Power Figures, Mythic Amazons, and Neoliberal Risk Performers: Discursively Situating Women Who Participate in Mixed Martial Arts

      • Riley Chisholm, Charlene Weaving, Kathy Bischoping

      Pages 279-298

7. Media, Politics and Pedagogies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299

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Young, white men have dominated action sports for many years, yet women have refused to accept positions on the margins of these unique sporting cultures. Developing in a different context to many traditional sports, girls and women have adopted highly proactive approaches and developed unique strategies to negotiate space alongside their male peers in the waves, skate parks and cityscapes, on mountains and climbing walls, along trails, as well as around rinks. This international collection features contributions from a group of leading and emerging researchers, many of whom are passionate action sport participants themselves. With authors representing a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives including cultural studies, sociology, performance studies, media studies, sport for development, and education, this book offers the first collective focus on women in action sports cultures in the past, present and into the future. Ultimately, the book offers a vivid and powerful illustration of the new and ongoing struggles facing women in contemporary sporting cultures, as well as the various strands of activism, agency and politics being performed in the surf, on the slopes, and at the crag. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of sociology of sport and physical culture, gender studies, youth cultures, sport history, and pedagogy and education.

• feminism
• gender
• sexism
• media
• ethnography
• rock climbing
• Roller Derby
• parkour
• Snowboarding
• mothers
• Surfing
• politics
• ultimate frisbee
• neoliberalism
• girls
• culture
• identity
• women

• University of Waikato, New Zealand

  Holly Thorpe, Rebecca Olive

Holly Thorpe and Rebecca Olive work in Te Oranga School of Human Development and Movement Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Both have published widely on topics including sociology of sport, cultural studies, feminist theory and methodologies, youth culture, gender and action sports.

 

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