Description
Gender, sexual orientation and sexiness are provocative enough topics, but become volatile when sport is added to the mix. To what extent does ‘masculinity rule’ in sport? What is its impact on sports management, reporting and playing? How does it effect heterosexual female athletes, gay and lesbian athletes, not to mention non-athletic boys and men? Is there space enough in sport to support a range of gender and sexual identities and community voices?
This collection of original research papers and essays, featuring Australian and New Zealand authorship and content, will address the way masculinity rules in sport and how it is challenged.
The book is accessible to researchers, teachers and students with an interest in sport and society. It features articles from disciplines such as culture studies, history, law, philosophy and sociology. This diversity, along with the inclusion of reference and writing resources, makes the book a useful research and teaching tool.
Dennis Hemphill and Caroline Symons work in the School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance at Victoria University in Melbourne.
