Sheila Scraton
Biographic Data
| ID | 314514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheila Scraton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheila |
| FAMILY NAME | Scraton |
| SIGNATURE | SCRATON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0492-3430 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 330 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Feminism(s) and PE: 25 Years of Shaping Up to Womanhood
This article explores how our understandings of gender and Physical Education (PE) have developed since the publication of Shaping Up to Womanhood in 1992. I reflect back on my research which, using qualitative methodology and a socialist feminist lens, explored dominant gender relations in the teaching of girls’ PE in English secondary schools. The analysis of my data revealed how PE teachers had clear ideas about ‘appropriate’ activities and be…
Leisure
Leisure has traditionally been associated with work, as compensation from daily routines or residual time when other commitments have taken place. Since the 1970s leisure has been studied within its social context. Pluralist, Marxist, and feminist understandings of leisure have increasingly been replaced by analyses of leisure as a key site of cultural consumption. Leisure research has developed from large‐scale national surveys of participation …
Leisure studies and intersectionality
The challenge of understanding and researching the intersections of complex multiple inequalities has been a key focus for a range of social science disciplines over the past two decades. This paper considers the potential use of intersectionality for engaging more critically with the multiple interconnections of power, identity and discrimination. It outlines some key tenets of intersectionality: as a theoretical perspective; as a methodological…
Women, climbing and serious leisure
In this paper, the notion of serious leisure is critically explored in relation to women's climbing careers and identities. It draws upon findings from an in‐depth qualitative study of 19 women climbers and explores the concept of serious leisure from a gender perspective, arguing that in order to develop a more sophisticated understanding of serious leisure, it is important to situate participation in the social, cultural and political contexts …
(Re)Theorizing Leisure, Experience and Race
Leisure scholars have attempted to examine experience through a social-psychological lens that locates the individual and her/his interpretation of leisure experiences at the center of discussions about leisure, leisure experience and identity. However, this primarily social-psychological perspective lacks an accompanying discussion about the ideologies and discourses that structure those experiences. The purpose of this paper is to examine how "…
The challenges of intersectionality: Researching difference in physical education
Researching the intersection of class, race, gender, sexuality and disability raises many issues for educational research. Indeed, Maynard (2002 Maynard, M. 2002. Studying age, ‘race’ and gender: Translating a research proposal into a project. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 5: 31–40. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar], 33) has recently argued that ‘difference is one of the most significant, yet unresolved, issues …
Leisure
Leisure is a notoriously difficult concept to define. The study of leisure has early origins stretching back to the 1920s and Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class (1925). However, it was in the 1960s and 1970s that the foundations of leisure studies as an academic area were laid. Early writers such as Dumazedier in Towards a Society of Leisure (1967) defined leisure as activity that is set apart from other obligations such as work and family …
Grandfatherhood and Leisure
This paper explores the meanings and values attached to grandfatherhood for a range of older men who have recently retired from paid employment. It focuses on the spaces of grandfatherhood and the meanings they attach to time spent with grandchildren. The empirical study involved 12 semi‐structured interviews with grandfathers from diverse ethnic backgrounds. The data are examined from a theoretical position that recognises the significance of un…
Kampen mot kjønnsstereotypiene: En komparativ studie av kvinnelige fotballspilleres oppfattelse av maskulinitet og feminitet
Kari Fasting, Gertrud Pfister & Sheila Scraton: Disrupting gender? A cross-national study of female soccer players’ perceptions of masculinity and femininity Traditionally football has been a masculine sport, even though there has been a dramatic increase in the number of female footballers in many countries since the beginning of the 1970s. Through qualitative, in-depth interviews with female football players in England, Germany, Norway and Swed…
Bend It Like Patel: Centring ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Gender in Feminist Analysis of Women’s Football in England
This article focuses on the experiences of Black women and one Indian Hindu woman in football in England. The discussions draw on survey and interview research to theorize gender, 'race' and ethnicity. The research represents a questionnaire survey of women's teams and 14 semi-structured in-depth interviews; seven with players and seven with 'officials'. The survey provides data on players, coaches and managers at women's football clubs registere…
Stepping into Active Leisure? Young Women's Perceptions of Active Lifestyles and their Experiences of School Physical Education
This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study which aimed to explore young women's perceptions of and attitudes towards involvement in physical activity and physical education (PE). Drawing on group and individual qualitative interviews with 21 15-year-old young women, it explores the nature, purpose and experiences of their physical activity involvement, both in and out of school. It examines how, in both settings, young women make cons…
Heroines of Sport: The Politics of Difference and Identity
Confronting Whiteness? Researching the leisure lives of South Asian mothers
This paper reflects critical engagement with the development of feminist analyses of leisure and sport and more broadly debates within feminist theory and research epistemology and methodology. It focuses in particular upon the methodological issues raised in researching the leisure lives of South Asian mothers, examining critically the role of the white researchers involved. It argues that an approach based upon reflexivity with responsibility i…
It's Still a Man's Game: The Experiences of Top-Level European Women Footballers
This article investigates national similarities and differences with respect to how women enter the world of football and whether gender relations continue to impact on both their access to and opportunities in the sport. The data comes from 40 semi-structured interviews with top-level women footballers in England, Germany, Norway and Spain. Early male influences are discussed in relation to: existing work on socialization into sport, notions of …
Gendered cities: Women and public leisure space in the ‘postmodern city’
This paper focuses on women's leisure in city urban space. It draws on feminist discourses around 'difference' and cultural geography that explores public space as a gendered, sexualized and racialized arena. Empirically the paper discusses two case studies of women's leisure in the city: older women and 'young' mothers including a specific sample of South Asian mothers. The research suggests that although there is an obvious plurality of meaning…
Feminist Critiques of Physical Education
Shaping up to Womanhood: Gender and Girls' Physical Education
The changing world of women and leisure: Feminism, ‘postfeminism’ and leisure
This paper focuses on the future of feminist analysis in leisure studies given the recent theoretical debates within postmodernism and the journalistic and academic assumptions that we are in a ‘post‐feminist’ era. This discussion is situated within the discourse of ‘change’ in which a changing world is seen to be throwing into disarray many of our shared taken‐for‐granted assumptions, values and theories. For the purposes of this paper I will be…
A response to ‘Leisure, lifestyle and status: A pluralist framework for analysis’
(1989). A response to ‘Leisure, lifestyle and status: a pluralist framework for analysis’. Leisure Studies: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 155-158
Boys Muscle in Where Angels Fear to Tread' - Girls' Sub-Cultures and Physical Activities
Leisure studies and intersectionality
The challenge of understanding and researching the intersections of complex multiple inequalities has been a key focus for a range of social science disciplines over the past two decades. This paper considers the potential use of intersectionality for engaging more critically with the multiple interconnections of power, identity and discrimination. It outlines some key tenets of intersectionality: as a theoretical perspective; as a methodological…
The challenges of intersectionality: Researching difference in physical education
Researching the intersection of class, race, gender, sexuality and disability raises many issues for educational research. Indeed, Maynard (2002 Maynard, M. 2002. Studying age, ‘race’ and gender: Translating a research proposal into a project. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 5: 31–40. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar], 33) has recently argued that ‘difference is one of the most significant, yet unresolved, issues …
Gendered cities: Women and public leisure space in the ‘postmodern city’
This paper focuses on women's leisure in city urban space. It draws on feminist discourses around 'difference' and cultural geography that explores public space as a gendered, sexualized and racialized arena. Empirically the paper discusses two case studies of women's leisure in the city: older women and 'young' mothers including a specific sample of South Asian mothers. The research suggests that although there is an obvious plurality of meaning…
(Re)Theorizing Leisure, Experience and Race
Leisure scholars have attempted to examine experience through a social-psychological lens that locates the individual and her/his interpretation of leisure experiences at the center of discussions about leisure, leisure experience and identity. However, this primarily social-psychological perspective lacks an accompanying discussion about the ideologies and discourses that structure those experiences. The purpose of this paper is to examine how "…
Women, climbing and serious leisure
In this paper, the notion of serious leisure is critically explored in relation to women's climbing careers and identities. It draws upon findings from an in‐depth qualitative study of 19 women climbers and explores the concept of serious leisure from a gender perspective, arguing that in order to develop a more sophisticated understanding of serious leisure, it is important to situate participation in the social, cultural and political contexts …
It's Still a Man's Game: The Experiences of Top-Level European Women Footballers
This article investigates national similarities and differences with respect to how women enter the world of football and whether gender relations continue to impact on both their access to and opportunities in the sport. The data comes from 40 semi-structured interviews with top-level women footballers in England, Germany, Norway and Spain. Early male influences are discussed in relation to: existing work on socialization into sport, notions of …
Bend It Like Patel: Centring ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Gender in Feminist Analysis of Women’s Football in England
This article focuses on the experiences of Black women and one Indian Hindu woman in football in England. The discussions draw on survey and interview research to theorize gender, 'race' and ethnicity. The research represents a questionnaire survey of women's teams and 14 semi-structured in-depth interviews; seven with players and seven with 'officials'. The survey provides data on players, coaches and managers at women's football clubs registere…
Grandfatherhood and Leisure
This paper explores the meanings and values attached to grandfatherhood for a range of older men who have recently retired from paid employment. It focuses on the spaces of grandfatherhood and the meanings they attach to time spent with grandchildren. The empirical study involved 12 semi‐structured interviews with grandfathers from diverse ethnic backgrounds. The data are examined from a theoretical position that recognises the significance of un…
Confronting Whiteness? Researching the leisure lives of South Asian mothers
This paper reflects critical engagement with the development of feminist analyses of leisure and sport and more broadly debates within feminist theory and research epistemology and methodology. It focuses in particular upon the methodological issues raised in researching the leisure lives of South Asian mothers, examining critically the role of the white researchers involved. It argues that an approach based upon reflexivity with responsibility i…
The changing world of women and leisure: Feminism, ‘postfeminism’ and leisure
This paper focuses on the future of feminist analysis in leisure studies given the recent theoretical debates within postmodernism and the journalistic and academic assumptions that we are in a ‘post‐feminist’ era. This discussion is situated within the discourse of ‘change’ in which a changing world is seen to be throwing into disarray many of our shared taken‐for‐granted assumptions, values and theories. For the purposes of this paper I will be…
Feminism(s) and PE: 25 Years of Shaping Up to Womanhood
This article explores how our understandings of gender and Physical Education (PE) have developed since the publication of Shaping Up to Womanhood in 1992. I reflect back on my research which, using qualitative methodology and a socialist feminist lens, explored dominant gender relations in the teaching of girls’ PE in English secondary schools. The analysis of my data revealed how PE teachers had clear ideas about ‘appropriate’ activities and be…
A response to ‘Leisure, lifestyle and status: A pluralist framework for analysis’
(1989). A response to ‘Leisure, lifestyle and status: a pluralist framework for analysis’. Leisure Studies: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 155-158
Feminist Critiques of Physical Education
Boys Muscle in Where Angels Fear to Tread' - Girls' Sub-Cultures and Physical Activities
Stepping into Active Leisure? Young Women's Perceptions of Active Lifestyles and their Experiences of School Physical Education
This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study which aimed to explore young women's perceptions of and attitudes towards involvement in physical activity and physical education (PE). Drawing on group and individual qualitative interviews with 21 15-year-old young women, it explores the nature, purpose and experiences of their physical activity involvement, both in and out of school. It examines how, in both settings, young women make cons…
Heroines of Sport: The Politics of Difference and Identity
Boys Muscle in Where Angels Fear to Tread' - Girls' Sub-Cultures and Physical Activities
A response to ‘Leisure, lifestyle and status: A pluralist framework for analysis’
(1989). A response to ‘Leisure, lifestyle and status: a pluralist framework for analysis’. Leisure Studies: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 155-158
Shaping up to Womanhood: Gender and Girls' Physical Education
The changing world of women and leisure: Feminism, ‘postfeminism’ and leisure
This paper focuses on the future of feminist analysis in leisure studies given the recent theoretical debates within postmodernism and the journalistic and academic assumptions that we are in a ‘post‐feminist’ era. This discussion is situated within the discourse of ‘change’ in which a changing world is seen to be throwing into disarray many of our shared taken‐for‐granted assumptions, values and theories. For the purposes of this paper I will be…
Feminist Critiques of Physical Education
Gendered cities: Women and public leisure space in the ‘postmodern city’
This paper focuses on women's leisure in city urban space. It draws on feminist discourses around 'difference' and cultural geography that explores public space as a gendered, sexualized and racialized arena. Empirically the paper discusses two case studies of women's leisure in the city: older women and 'young' mothers including a specific sample of South Asian mothers. The research suggests that although there is an obvious plurality of meaning…
It's Still a Man's Game: The Experiences of Top-Level European Women Footballers
This article investigates national similarities and differences with respect to how women enter the world of football and whether gender relations continue to impact on both their access to and opportunities in the sport. The data comes from 40 semi-structured interviews with top-level women footballers in England, Germany, Norway and Spain. Early male influences are discussed in relation to: existing work on socialization into sport, notions of …
Stepping into Active Leisure? Young Women's Perceptions of Active Lifestyles and their Experiences of School Physical Education
This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study which aimed to explore young women's perceptions of and attitudes towards involvement in physical activity and physical education (PE). Drawing on group and individual qualitative interviews with 21 15-year-old young women, it explores the nature, purpose and experiences of their physical activity involvement, both in and out of school. It examines how, in both settings, young women make cons…
Heroines of Sport: The Politics of Difference and Identity
Confronting Whiteness? Researching the leisure lives of South Asian mothers
This paper reflects critical engagement with the development of feminist analyses of leisure and sport and more broadly debates within feminist theory and research epistemology and methodology. It focuses in particular upon the methodological issues raised in researching the leisure lives of South Asian mothers, examining critically the role of the white researchers involved. It argues that an approach based upon reflexivity with responsibility i…
Kampen mot kjønnsstereotypiene: En komparativ studie av kvinnelige fotballspilleres oppfattelse av maskulinitet og feminitet
Kari Fasting, Gertrud Pfister & Sheila Scraton: Disrupting gender? A cross-national study of female soccer players’ perceptions of masculinity and femininity Traditionally football has been a masculine sport, even though there has been a dramatic increase in the number of female footballers in many countries since the beginning of the 1970s. Through qualitative, in-depth interviews with female football players in England, Germany, Norway and Swed…
Bend It Like Patel: Centring ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Gender in Feminist Analysis of Women’s Football in England
This article focuses on the experiences of Black women and one Indian Hindu woman in football in England. The discussions draw on survey and interview research to theorize gender, 'race' and ethnicity. The research represents a questionnaire survey of women's teams and 14 semi-structured in-depth interviews; seven with players and seven with 'officials'. The survey provides data on players, coaches and managers at women's football clubs registere…
Grandfatherhood and Leisure
This paper explores the meanings and values attached to grandfatherhood for a range of older men who have recently retired from paid employment. It focuses on the spaces of grandfatherhood and the meanings they attach to time spent with grandchildren. The empirical study involved 12 semi‐structured interviews with grandfathers from diverse ethnic backgrounds. The data are examined from a theoretical position that recognises the significance of un…
Leisure
Leisure is a notoriously difficult concept to define. The study of leisure has early origins stretching back to the 1920s and Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class (1925). However, it was in the 1960s and 1970s that the foundations of leisure studies as an academic area were laid. Early writers such as Dumazedier in Towards a Society of Leisure (1967) defined leisure as activity that is set apart from other obligations such as work and family …
The challenges of intersectionality: Researching difference in physical education
Researching the intersection of class, race, gender, sexuality and disability raises many issues for educational research. Indeed, Maynard (2002 Maynard, M. 2002. Studying age, ‘race’ and gender: Translating a research proposal into a project. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 5: 31–40. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar], 33) has recently argued that ‘difference is one of the most significant, yet unresolved, issues …
(Re)Theorizing Leisure, Experience and Race
Leisure scholars have attempted to examine experience through a social-psychological lens that locates the individual and her/his interpretation of leisure experiences at the center of discussions about leisure, leisure experience and identity. However, this primarily social-psychological perspective lacks an accompanying discussion about the ideologies and discourses that structure those experiences. The purpose of this paper is to examine how "…
Women, climbing and serious leisure
In this paper, the notion of serious leisure is critically explored in relation to women's climbing careers and identities. It draws upon findings from an in‐depth qualitative study of 19 women climbers and explores the concept of serious leisure from a gender perspective, arguing that in order to develop a more sophisticated understanding of serious leisure, it is important to situate participation in the social, cultural and political contexts …
Leisure studies and intersectionality
The challenge of understanding and researching the intersections of complex multiple inequalities has been a key focus for a range of social science disciplines over the past two decades. This paper considers the potential use of intersectionality for engaging more critically with the multiple interconnections of power, identity and discrimination. It outlines some key tenets of intersectionality: as a theoretical perspective; as a methodological…
Leisure
Leisure has traditionally been associated with work, as compensation from daily routines or residual time when other commitments have taken place. Since the 1970s leisure has been studied within its social context. Pluralist, Marxist, and feminist understandings of leisure have increasingly been replaced by analyses of leisure as a key site of cultural consumption. Leisure research has developed from large‐scale national surveys of participation …
Feminism(s) and PE: 25 Years of Shaping Up to Womanhood
This article explores how our understandings of gender and Physical Education (PE) have developed since the publication of Shaping Up to Womanhood in 1992. I reflect back on my research which, using qualitative methodology and a socialist feminist lens, explored dominant gender relations in the teaching of girls’ PE in English secondary schools. The analysis of my data revealed how PE teachers had clear ideas about ‘appropriate’ activities and be…
Sociology (18 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social science (10 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (8 works)