1st Edition

Rethinking Gender and Youth Sport

Edited By Ian Wellard Copyright 2007
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
1. Introduction Ian Wellard  2. Physical Education, Physical Activity, Sport and Gender Dawn Penney  3. Embodied Identities: Boxing Masculinities Kath Woodward  4. Girls, Bodies and Pain: Negotiating the Body in Ballet Angela Pickard  5. Being ‘Able’ in a Performative Culture: Physical Education’s Contribution to a Healthy Interest in Sport? John Evans, Emma Rich, Rachel Allwood and Brian Davies  6. Inflexible Bodies and Minds: Exploring Gendered Limits in Contemporary Sport, Physical Education and Dance Ian Wellard  7. Gender and Secondary School NCPE: Change Alongside Continuity Ken Green, Andy Smith, Miranda Thurston and Kevin Lamb  8. (Hetero)sexy Waves: Surfing, Space, Gender and Sexuality Gordon Waitt  9. Sport, Well-Being and Gender Richard Bailey, Andrew Bloodworth and Mike McNamee

Biography

Ian Wellard is a Senior Research Fellow in the Sociology of Sport in the Centre for Physical Education Research, Canterbury Christ Church University. He is currently involved in a number projects related to physical education, the body and gender.