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- Situates girls’ sporting participation within a post-feminist, neoliberal social context
- Challenges the claims that girls now “have it all” in terms of both sporting and academic achievements
- Combines theories of affect and embodiment with feminist poststructuralist perspectives to explore how gendered bodies are lived, felt and articulated
Part of the book series: New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures (NFDPSC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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London, UK
Sheryl Clark
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sporty Girls
Book Subtitle: Gender, Health and Achievement in a Postfeminist Era
Authors: Sheryl Clark
Series Title: New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67249-2
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 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67248-5Published: 02 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67251-5Published: 03 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67249-2Published: 01 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2522-0330
Series E-ISSN: 2522-0349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 193
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Gender Studies, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Sociology of Education