Researching Women and Sport
This book aims to fill an important gap in feminist literature. In so doing, it addresses critical issues in feminist research around women, sport, physical activity and PE. All too frequently, women's presence in the sporting arena is marginalised and ra
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GILL CLARKE BARBARA HUMBERSTONE JO CAMPLING
RESEARCHING WOMEN AND SPORT
Researching Women and Sport Edited by Gill Clarke and Barbara Humberstone Foreword by Jennifer Hargreaves Consultant Editor: Jo Campling
Editorial matter and selection © Gill Clarke and Barbara Humbcrstone 1997 Text © Macmillan Press Ltd 1997 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1997 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WI P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 1997 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-0-333-64231-3
ISBN 978-1-349-25317-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-25317-3
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Contents Acknowledgements
vii
Foreword by Professor Jellllifer Hargreaves
viii
Notes 011 Contributors
x
IlItroduction Gill Clarke and Barbara Humberstone
xiii
Managing a Women's Sport Organisation: Interpreting Biographies Gill Clarke and Barbara Humberstolle
2
Researching a Women's Sport Organisation Brenda Grace
3
Playing a Part: The Lives of Lesbian Physical Education Teachers Gill Clarke
36
Islam, Well-being and Physical Activity: Perceptions of Muslim Young Women Hasina Zaman
50
Self-confidence and Self-esteem in Physical Education and Sport Jail Graydoll
68
On Pleasure and Pain: Women Speak Out About Physical Activity Jan Wright alld Alisoll Dewar
80
Working on the Body: Links Between Physical Activity and Social Power Sarah Gilroy
96
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Elite Women Wheelchair Athletes in Australia Talllli Grey
113
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Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse in Sport Celia Brackellridge
126
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Contellts
vi
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Time and Context in Women's Sport and Leisure
142
Margaret Talbot II
Gender Relations in Physical Education Initial Teacher Education
164
Alllle Flintoff
12
The Sporting Lives of Women in European Countries: Issues in Cross-national Research
183
Sheila Scraton
13
Challenging Dominant Ideologies in the Research Process
199
Barbara Humberstotle Index
214
Acknow ledgements We would like to thank our contributors and all the past and present executive members of the Women's Sports Foundation for supporting us throughout the genesis an
