Much writing on gender and sport is focused upon the negative impact of girls’ exclusion from the arena, suggesting by inference that current practice in sport and physical education offers an uncomplicatedly positive sport experience for boys, and that gender, in and of itself, offers a simple starting point for research into young people’s experience of sport. Rethinking Gender and Youth Sport articulates certain themes which, it is suggested, might contribute to broadening and furthering discussion in the area of gender, youth sport and physical activity. This collection considers a number of themes relating to gender in sport, including: the body competence, ability and school physical education cultural change and diversity gendered spaces human rights and well-being. Authoritative writers have contributed thought provoking chapters which will prompt the reader to re-think the ways in which gender is understood within the context of youth sport.
Author(s): Ian Wellard: Ri
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 184
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 12
Contributors......Page 14
Foreword......Page 16
1 Introduction: Young people, gender, physical activity and sport......Page 18
2 Physical education, physical activity, sport and gender: Contemporary connections and debates......Page 29
3 Embodied identities: Boxing masculinities......Page 40
4 Girls, bodies and pain: Negotiating the body in ballet......Page 53
5 Being ‘able’ in a performative culture: Physical education’s contribution to a healthy interest in sport?......Page 68
6 Gender and secondary school National Curriculum Physical Education: Change alongside continuity......Page 85
7 Inflexible bodies and minds: Exploring the gendered limits in contemporary sport, physical education and dance......Page 101
8 (Hetero)sexy waves: Surfing, space, gender and sexuality......Page 116
9 Sport, well-being and gender......Page 144
Notes......Page 157
References......Page 159
Index......Page 182
