This book is the first edited collection to offer an intersectional account of gender in mountaineering adventure sports and leisure. It provides original theoretical, methodological, and empirical insights into mountain spaces as sites of socio-cultural production and transformation.
The book shows how gender matters in the twenty-first century, and illustrates that there is a need for greater efforts to mainstream difference in representations and governance structures if we are to improve equality in adventure, sporting and leisure spaces.
The interdisciplinary volume represents scholars from theoretical as well as applied perspectives across adventure, tourism, sport science, sports coaching, psychology, geography, sociology and outdoor studies.
Author(s): Jenny Hall, Emma Boocock, Zoë Avner
Series: Global Culture and Sport Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 297
City: London
Foreword
Reference
Acknowledgements
Reference
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Contextualising Gender and Transformational Spaces in Mountaineering Adventure Sports and Leisure
Part I: Transforming the Past: Intersecting Mountaineering Histories
Part II: Transforming Experience: Intersectionality in Mountain Spaces and Places
Part III: Transforming Leadership, Participation and Praxis: Climbing the Mountain of Equity
Part IV: Transformational Pedagogies: Creating New Spaces to Mountaineer
References
Part I: Transforming the Past: Intersecting Mountaineering Histories
Chapter 2: ‘That is the Lady I saw Ascending Snowdon, Alone’: Pioneering Women Mountaineers of the Nineteenth Century
Dorothy Wordsworth
Ellen Weeton
Harriet Martineau
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Troubling the Silences of Adventure Legacies: Junko Tabei and the Intersectional Politics of Mountaineering
Introduction: ‘Go climb the Himalayas, by all means, by women alone’
Intersectionality in Tourism and Adventure Mountaineering
Intersectionality and Mountaineering in Twentieth-Century Japan
Intersectional Experiences in Japanese Women’s Mountaineering: “Let’s go on an overseas expedition by ourselves”
Performing Masculinities Through Male Allyship
Pioneering New Spaces
Crossing Boundaries of Leadership, Gender and Motherhood: Japanese Women’s Everest Expedition (JWEE)
Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Race: Creating Spaces of Cultural Exchange
Pioneering International Gender Equality
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: “There is no manlier sport in the world”. How Hegemonic Masculinity Became Constitutive of Excellence in Mountaineering
Introduction
Excellent = Masculine: Hegemonic Masculinity as Constitutive of Excellence
Masculine>Feminine: Hegemonic Masculinity as Exclusion of Women
Masculine>Masculine: Hegemonic Masculinity as Hierarchy Among Men
Hegemonic = Hegemonic? Expressions of Hegemonic Masculinity as Context-Dependent
Conclusion
References (The bibliography does not include narratives whose titles are mentioned as examples in part IV.)
Part II: Transforming Experience: Intersectionality in Mountain Spaces and Places
Chapter 5: Reflexive Duoethnography: A Dialogic Exploration of Disability and Participation in Outdoor Adventure Activities and a Mountain Climber Academic
Basecamp
Camp One
Camp Two
Camp Three
Camp Four
Summit Bid
References
Chapter 6: “The whole trip I basically had to hide”: A Goffmanian Analysis of Erin Parisi and Negotiating the Gendered Mountaineering Space
Introduction: Who Is Erin Parisi?
Outdoor and Adventurous Sports: A Gendered Space?
Trans* Experiences in Mountaineering and Outdoor Adventure
Methodology: Procedure and Data Collection
Data Analysis
Results and Discussion
Going Stealth: Defensive Practices and Maintaining Invisibility
Becoming a Speaker: The Gendered Mountaineering Space
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Exploring the Gendered and Racialised Experiences of Mexican Mestiza: Women Mountaineers Through the Rhizomatic Body
Introduction
Mountaineering in Mexico
Characterising the Rhizomatic Body
Deleuze in the Mountain
Method
Findings
Analysis
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: (Re)naming Routes: A Tale of Transformation in the Outdoor Rock Climbing Community
Introduction
Key Theoretical Concepts
Outdoor Climbing Context
Conditions That Make Route Names Possible
Cultural Construction of Wilderness
Racist and Misogynist Toponyms
Laddish/Toxic Masculinity
Collecting and Mobilising Data
Name Changes
Climbers and Organisations Reclaiming and Transforming Climbing Spaces
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Part III: Transforming Leadership, Participation and Praxis: Climbing the Mountain of Equity
Chapter 9: Climbing Mountains Together: Developing Gender Parity Pathways in Mountaineering Leadership and the Role of Men
Introduction
Women, Gender and Leadership in the Outdoors
Understanding the Issue: Women and Outdoor Leadership
Supporting Women’s Leadership in Mountaineering
The Role of Male Allies
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: A Critical Postfeminist Lens as a Tool for Praxis
Introduction
Critical Postfeminism
A Critical Postfeminist Lens as a Strengthening Tool for Praxis
Conclusion
References
Chapter 11: Leave Tracks: Gender, Discrimination, and Resistance in Mountaineering
Gender, Difference, Similarity
Discrimination Against Women in Mountaineering
Cost of Discrimination
Leaving Tracks: Women as Resistors
Allies or Adversaries?
Allies
Collective Understanding
Fixing a Broken System
A Focus on Intersectionality
Female Peers as Allies
Conclusion
References
Part IV: Transformational Pedagogies: Creating New Spaces to Mountaineer
Chapter 12: Into the Mountain: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses of Mountaineering and Expanding the Relational Field
Introduction
References
Chapter 13: Transformational Learning on the Journey to Mountain Leadership
Methodology
Transformational Learning (TL)
Transformational Learning and the Gendered Landscape
Women’s Initial Challenges as Mountain Leaders
Never Prepared Enough
Following Men Up Mountains
Building a Repertoire of “Not Good Enough”
Women Outdoor Leadership Course (WOLC) Rationale
Impacts, Enabling Factors and Insights for Practice
Women Only—Not a “soft touch”
Supportive AND Ambitious
Connecting the Intra-personal and the Technical
Conclusion
References
Chapter 14: An Autoethnographic Writing of Mountain Skill Courses
Introduction
Autoethnographic Writing
Methodology
Memoir 1: Differing Bodies—“I just can’t keep pace”
Memoir 2: “Why are you treating me so differently?”
Memoir 3: There’s Just a Different Energy
Sense Making
Additional Emotional and Physical Labour
Unconscious Bias and Sexism
Women-Only Spaces
Concluding Thoughts
References
Index
