Multiple Bodies

Sportswomen, Soccer and Sexuality

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2377610
AutoresBarbara Cox (The University of Auckland, New Zealand), Shona Thompson (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Año2000
Volumen35
Número1
Páginas5-20
Fecha de publicación2000-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/101269000035001001
OpenAlexW2011744482
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas96
Referencias citadas29

This study explores how female soccer players experience their bodies within the discourses of sport, gender and heterosexuality. Using in-depth interviews and participant observation, the research focused on a team that competed in a premier women's league in New Zealand. The findings indicated that the players underwent four distinct, yet interconnected, bodily experiences. This suggests that the use of a multiple body perspective enables a more subtle understanding of women's experiences in sport. The findings also indicate that the possibility of seeing one's body as being constituted differently by these multiple discourses may be a liberating experience, in that it allows women to access a diversity of feminine practices

Art · Gender relations · Heterosexuality · Human sexuality · League · Participant observation · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Physical Education and Pedagogy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society