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1st Edition

It's Women's Time in Soccer! Fandom, Digitality and the Feminine Game

Edited By Kausik Bandyopadhyay Copyright 2027

230 Pages

by Routledge

Description

This book investigates the transformative relationship between soccer and women in the 21st century, a time when football has increasingly embraced femininity and women have gained unprecedented visibility and empowerment in the digital soccer landscape. Highlighting the growing presence of women in fan culture and digital spaces, the book explores how these arenas have become pivotal in shaping... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction: soccer, women, fandom and digitality

Kausik Bandyopadhyay

Part I - When Fandom Is Feminine: Women Fans in Soccer

1. ‘No Scotland, no party!’: diversity, identity and fandom in Scottish women’s football

Andrew Jenkin and Fiona Skillen

2. Negotiating gender in antifascist football fan communities in Greece

Spyros Bolakis and Efi Koukoutsi

3. Toward contesting the ‘male preserve’? A study of women as spectators of men’s football in West Bengal, India1

Srutayu Bhattacharya

4. Determinants of stadium attendance in the WE League, Japan: a comparative analysis of the pre- and post-2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup seasons

Akari Ota, Eiji Ito and Tatsuo Oi

5. FIFA Men’s World Cup as a liminal space: women’s football fandom and gender dynamics in Kerala, India

Ameesh Samalopanan

Part II - Let’s Play Online: Women and Soccer in a Digital World

6. Platformization, cultural practices, and patterns of (dis)continuity: the case of the Women’s World Cup

Renan Petersen-Wagner and Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen

7. Exploring online sexism and misogyny in women’s professional English football

Daniel Kilvington, Katie Liston, Thomas Fletcher, Jack Black, Theo Lynn, Gary Sinclair, Colm Kearns and Mark Doidge

8. Female fandom, social media, and men’s football in 21st century Kolkata: an empirical and engagement-based analysis

Sumallya Mukhopadhyay and Anik Biswas

9. Digitalisation of the playing field: a conceptual study of Chinese women’s soccer players’ live streaming e-commerce (daihuo) on social media

Ryan Chen, Shushan Dai, Susmit S. Gulavani and Yiran Su

10. Contesting gender norms in women’s soccer: digital engagement with an activist message

Pascale Marceau and Amélie Guèvremont

Epilogue

11. ‘Girls show boys the way’: insights into the growth of women’s game

Jack Woodward and Kath Woodward

Editor(s)

Biography

Kausik Bandyopadhyay is Professor of History at West Bengal State University, Kolkata, India. Formerly a Fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne, and of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, he is also Executive Academic Editor of Soccer and Society (Routledge).

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