1st Edition
Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces Staking Their Claim
By Yoko Kanemasu
Copyright 2023
214 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces – in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise – as a prism to explore grassroots women’s engagement with heavily entrenched postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy.
Based on primary research conducted in Fiji, Samoa, Solomon... Read more
1 Introduction
2 Fiji Women’s Rugby: Resistance against All Odds
3 Athletic Indo-Fijian Women: Beyond Sporting Absence
4 Vanuatu Women’s Beach Volleyball: Subversive Stars in Alignment
5 Solomon Islands Women’s Soccer: Seizing the Moment for Change
6 Samoa Women’s Rugby: Working with ‘Culture’
7 Conclusion
Biography
Yoko Kanemasu is Associate Professor in Sociology in the School of Law and Social Sciences in the University of the South Pacific.
