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He Owned Me Basically

Women's Experience of Sexual Abuse in Sport

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ID12329976
AuthorsCelia Brackenridge (CHELTENHAM & GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, UK, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume32
Issue2
Pages115-130
Publication date1997-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/101269097032002001
OpenAlexW2074761576
LanguageEN
Citations received56
References cited8

Many women have, at some time, been the subject of sexual harassment or abuse in their working lives. This paper explains how similar experiences also occur in sport and why they have particularly devastating consequences for girls and women. Sexual harassment and abuse arise from the culture of sport and from the opportunities for exploitation of power and authority which this affords coaches. Results from studies of personal accounts of abuse by former women athletes are presented and used to test various explanatory theories of abuse

Abuse of power · Athletes · Criminology · Epistemology · Explanatory power · Harassment · Poison control · Political science · Power (physics · Sexual abuse · Subject (documents · Doping in Sports · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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Unique citing works56
Citations per year1,93
Citation span1997 - 2026 (30)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 56
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