Ali Bowes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali Bowes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowes |
| SIGNATURE | BOWES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5635-106X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Participation, Performance, and Potential for Health: Towards Critical Geographies of Health and Sport
Organised sport settings serve as key spaces for the potential production, maintenance, and experience of health. Although scholars have highlighted the problematic practices associated with health in these settings, it remains that participation in organised sport can offer opportunities for distinct health and wellbeing benefits across a range of physical, mental, and social outcomes. Yet, geographic research has rarely explored organised sport…
Mental health and professional women footballers: A scoping review
This scoping review aimed to synthesize literature on mental health and professional women footballers and provide recommendations for future research. Four databases were searched for studies meeting the inclusion criteria. After screening over 1,100 articles, 10 met the inclusion criteria. All studies used quantitative methods and self-report measures to examine mental ill-health symptoms, mainly depression, anxiety, and eating disorder symptom…
Still the Outsiders? Women in Sport Journalism
It has long been acknowledged that sport media is a male-dominated space, which has served to entrench women sport journalists’ position in the industry as outsiders. This research consisted of interviews with 10 women sport journalists working in the United Kingdom, exploring their workplace experiences. Drawing on Kanter’s theory of tokenism, findings indicate that women working in men’s sport face workplace practices that reinforce their outsi…
National identities, European identity and cosmopolitanism: The case of female golf fans at the 2019 Solheim Cup
The aim of this paper is to consider the relationship between sport and identity formation by examining testimonies of 24 British women who attended the Solheim Cup golf tournament in 2019 to support a transnational team made up of professional European women players. Relatively little is known about the effects of transnational sports teams on identity formation, not least because such teams are themselves rare. The Solheim Cup, contested by tea…
It's sort of help yourself' - DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport
It has become something of a truism, that within various athletic subcultures pain and injury are regularly normalised as 'part of the game'. One clear consequence which flows from this empirical reality is that athletes often need medical care in various forms. Recent developments in the gendered structuring of sport means that sportswomen are increasingly centred within this process. Yet, there is a broad consensus from sportswomen and academic…
Didn’t know she could shout that loud’: The performance of fandom among women followers of women’s golf
While a growing body of evidence exists around women fans of men’s sport, less is known about women fans’ perspectives and identities in relation to women’s sport, and what is known tends to focus on homogenous representations of sports fans, rather than a diversity of fan types and follower styles. Building on the authors’ previous appraisals of the Solheim Cup – the biggest event in women’s golf – this paper examines fan performances of women a…
The golf course doesn’t know what gender you are: Feminist Perspectives in the Online Blog of a Female Professional Golfer
Many female athletes are using online platforms to control their own portrayals, and such representations have been examined mostly through neoliberal and postfeminist perspectives, which position female athletes as responsible for their own self-promotion, visibility, success and failure. This paper seeks to employ these and other feminist frameworks in exploring how professional golfer Meghan MacLaren uses her online blog to respond to gender i…
Selling Scotland? Selling women’s golf? The 2019 Solheim Cup in the ‘Home of Golf’
In 2019, Scotland played host to the Solheim Cup, a competition contested by leading women professional golfers representing Europe and the United States. The event was given further political significance by the fact that it took place in the same year as the United Kingdom left the European Union against the wishes of the majority of Scots who had voted in the 2016 referendum on EU membership. This paper examines the significance of the 2019 So…
Sport, Gender and Mega-Events
This volume unpicks mega-events as gendered entities and showcases how they both position athletes in relation to one of two binary sex positions and also push the boundaries of what we see and accept as a recognisably gendered male or female body
‘Wow these girls can play’: Sex integration in professional golf
Men and women typically operate in separate spaces in the sporting world, with sport being one of the few social institutions that continues to segregate the two sexes. The culture of golf, like sport more broadly, is widely regarded as male-dominated, despite women’s involvement in playing the sport throughout history. Typically, women’s participation has not been welcomed nor taken seriously, and golf cultures have normalised exclusionary and d…
‘Write when it hurts. Then write till it doesn’t’: Athlete voice and the lived realities of one female professional athlete
Digital media has played a central role in promoting women’s sport, where female athletes are increasingly using online platforms to control their own representations and challenge male dominated sporting institutions. Alternatively, some commentators claim that female athletes’ use of digital media contributes to patriarchal practices in sport, where through self-promotion and image building they do little to advance representations of women’s s…
Media Framing of Women’s Football During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article examines British media coverage of women's association football during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, to identify how the media framed the women's game and how these frames could shape the public perceptions of it. Through a database search of British-based news coverage of women's football, 100 news articles were identified in the first 6 months after the start of the pandemic. A thematic analysis was conducted, and five domin…
The price of success: Equal Pay and the US Women’s National Soccer Team
This commentary offers an analysis of the implications of the US Women’ National team Collective Action lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation. The players filed the lawsuit based on two grounds: first, that the US Soccer Federation violated the Equal Pay Act by paying them less than the men’s national team and second, that the federation discriminated against them under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act 1964, specifically in regard to workplac…
The Incompatibility of Motherhood and Professional Women's Football in England
There has been an advancement of professionalisation of women's football globally. Professional women's football in England has grown exponentially since the inception of the Football Association (FA) Women's Super League in 2011. This article offers an examination of the gender-specific needs of women as professional footballers, focusing specifically on the distinctive aspect of maternity policy. Sportswomen often feel compelled to make the dif…
Women, War and Sport: The Battle of the 2019 Solheim Cup
One of the most significant and/or prevalent symbols of nationhood is to be found in the international (men’s) sporting arena. Sport is often imbued with notions of national identity and war, although the sport of golf is generally devoid of flags and nationalistic tendencies and is thus often considered relatively insignificant in inculcating national sentiments – except in the exceptional cases of team golf events such as the Solheim Cup. This …
Battle of the sixes: Investigating print media representations of female professional golfers competing in a men's tour event
In May 2018, the men's European Tour invited five female professional golfers to compete in its GolfSixes event in England, against 27 professional male players. This was significant, particularly given the female struggle for equality of access, participation, employment and decision making in golf settings. This research investigates the print media representation of these five female professional golfers competing in this male domain. Using th…
Three Lions on Her Shirt: Hot and Banal Nationalism for England's Sportswomen
It has long been claimed that sport plays an important role in the formulation of national identity. Key to understanding this relationship is Michael Billig's concept of banal nationalism, which is used in this article to examine national symbols that act as daily reminders of the nation. Specifically, the article discusses the relationship between Englishness and sport by drawing upon data from interviews with representative English sportswomen…
England's proxy warriors? Women, war and sport
It has been claimed that the one place Englishness exists is on the sports field, and usually it is men's sport that appears central to creating a sense of English national identity. However, in light of England's sporting success across multiple women's sports (namely cricket, netball, association football and rugby union), there warrants a need to begin to question the place of these female athletes in discussions of the nation. Drawing on exte…
Media Framing of Women’s Football During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article examines British media coverage of women's association football during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, to identify how the media framed the women's game and how these frames could shape the public perceptions of it. Through a database search of British-based news coverage of women's football, 100 news articles were identified in the first 6 months after the start of the pandemic. A thematic analysis was conducted, and five domin…
The Incompatibility of Motherhood and Professional Women's Football in England
There has been an advancement of professionalisation of women's football globally. Professional women's football in England has grown exponentially since the inception of the Football Association (FA) Women's Super League in 2011. This article offers an examination of the gender-specific needs of women as professional footballers, focusing specifically on the distinctive aspect of maternity policy. Sportswomen often feel compelled to make the dif…
The price of success: Equal Pay and the US Women’s National Soccer Team
This commentary offers an analysis of the implications of the US Women’ National team Collective Action lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation. The players filed the lawsuit based on two grounds: first, that the US Soccer Federation violated the Equal Pay Act by paying them less than the men’s national team and second, that the federation discriminated against them under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act 1964, specifically in regard to workplac…
Three Lions on Her Shirt: Hot and Banal Nationalism for England's Sportswomen
It has long been claimed that sport plays an important role in the formulation of national identity. Key to understanding this relationship is Michael Billig's concept of banal nationalism, which is used in this article to examine national symbols that act as daily reminders of the nation. Specifically, the article discusses the relationship between Englishness and sport by drawing upon data from interviews with representative English sportswomen…
England's proxy warriors? Women, war and sport
It has been claimed that the one place Englishness exists is on the sports field, and usually it is men's sport that appears central to creating a sense of English national identity. However, in light of England's sporting success across multiple women's sports (namely cricket, netball, association football and rugby union), there warrants a need to begin to question the place of these female athletes in discussions of the nation. Drawing on exte…
Didn’t know she could shout that loud’: The performance of fandom among women followers of women’s golf
While a growing body of evidence exists around women fans of men’s sport, less is known about women fans’ perspectives and identities in relation to women’s sport, and what is known tends to focus on homogenous representations of sports fans, rather than a diversity of fan types and follower styles. Building on the authors’ previous appraisals of the Solheim Cup – the biggest event in women’s golf – this paper examines fan performances of women a…
Women, War and Sport: The Battle of the 2019 Solheim Cup
One of the most significant and/or prevalent symbols of nationhood is to be found in the international (men’s) sporting arena. Sport is often imbued with notions of national identity and war, although the sport of golf is generally devoid of flags and nationalistic tendencies and is thus often considered relatively insignificant in inculcating national sentiments – except in the exceptional cases of team golf events such as the Solheim Cup. This …
Battle of the sixes: Investigating print media representations of female professional golfers competing in a men's tour event
In May 2018, the men's European Tour invited five female professional golfers to compete in its GolfSixes event in England, against 27 professional male players. This was significant, particularly given the female struggle for equality of access, participation, employment and decision making in golf settings. This research investigates the print media representation of these five female professional golfers competing in this male domain. Using th…
It's sort of help yourself' - DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport
It has become something of a truism, that within various athletic subcultures pain and injury are regularly normalised as 'part of the game'. One clear consequence which flows from this empirical reality is that athletes often need medical care in various forms. Recent developments in the gendered structuring of sport means that sportswomen are increasingly centred within this process. Yet, there is a broad consensus from sportswomen and academic…
The golf course doesn’t know what gender you are: Feminist Perspectives in the Online Blog of a Female Professional Golfer
Many female athletes are using online platforms to control their own portrayals, and such representations have been examined mostly through neoliberal and postfeminist perspectives, which position female athletes as responsible for their own self-promotion, visibility, success and failure. This paper seeks to employ these and other feminist frameworks in exploring how professional golfer Meghan MacLaren uses her online blog to respond to gender i…
England's proxy warriors? Women, war and sport
It has been claimed that the one place Englishness exists is on the sports field, and usually it is men's sport that appears central to creating a sense of English national identity. However, in light of England's sporting success across multiple women's sports (namely cricket, netball, association football and rugby union), there warrants a need to begin to question the place of these female athletes in discussions of the nation. Drawing on exte…
Three Lions on Her Shirt: Hot and Banal Nationalism for England's Sportswomen
It has long been claimed that sport plays an important role in the formulation of national identity. Key to understanding this relationship is Michael Billig's concept of banal nationalism, which is used in this article to examine national symbols that act as daily reminders of the nation. Specifically, the article discusses the relationship between Englishness and sport by drawing upon data from interviews with representative English sportswomen…
Women, War and Sport: The Battle of the 2019 Solheim Cup
One of the most significant and/or prevalent symbols of nationhood is to be found in the international (men’s) sporting arena. Sport is often imbued with notions of national identity and war, although the sport of golf is generally devoid of flags and nationalistic tendencies and is thus often considered relatively insignificant in inculcating national sentiments – except in the exceptional cases of team golf events such as the Solheim Cup. This …
Battle of the sixes: Investigating print media representations of female professional golfers competing in a men's tour event
In May 2018, the men's European Tour invited five female professional golfers to compete in its GolfSixes event in England, against 27 professional male players. This was significant, particularly given the female struggle for equality of access, participation, employment and decision making in golf settings. This research investigates the print media representation of these five female professional golfers competing in this male domain. Using th…
Selling Scotland? Selling women’s golf? The 2019 Solheim Cup in the ‘Home of Golf’
In 2019, Scotland played host to the Solheim Cup, a competition contested by leading women professional golfers representing Europe and the United States. The event was given further political significance by the fact that it took place in the same year as the United Kingdom left the European Union against the wishes of the majority of Scots who had voted in the 2016 referendum on EU membership. This paper examines the significance of the 2019 So…
Sport, Gender and Mega-Events
This volume unpicks mega-events as gendered entities and showcases how they both position athletes in relation to one of two binary sex positions and also push the boundaries of what we see and accept as a recognisably gendered male or female body
‘Wow these girls can play’: Sex integration in professional golf
Men and women typically operate in separate spaces in the sporting world, with sport being one of the few social institutions that continues to segregate the two sexes. The culture of golf, like sport more broadly, is widely regarded as male-dominated, despite women’s involvement in playing the sport throughout history. Typically, women’s participation has not been welcomed nor taken seriously, and golf cultures have normalised exclusionary and d…
‘Write when it hurts. Then write till it doesn’t’: Athlete voice and the lived realities of one female professional athlete
Digital media has played a central role in promoting women’s sport, where female athletes are increasingly using online platforms to control their own representations and challenge male dominated sporting institutions. Alternatively, some commentators claim that female athletes’ use of digital media contributes to patriarchal practices in sport, where through self-promotion and image building they do little to advance representations of women’s s…
Media Framing of Women’s Football During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article examines British media coverage of women's association football during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, to identify how the media framed the women's game and how these frames could shape the public perceptions of it. Through a database search of British-based news coverage of women's football, 100 news articles were identified in the first 6 months after the start of the pandemic. A thematic analysis was conducted, and five domin…
The price of success: Equal Pay and the US Women’s National Soccer Team
This commentary offers an analysis of the implications of the US Women’ National team Collective Action lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation. The players filed the lawsuit based on two grounds: first, that the US Soccer Federation violated the Equal Pay Act by paying them less than the men’s national team and second, that the federation discriminated against them under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act 1964, specifically in regard to workplac…
The Incompatibility of Motherhood and Professional Women's Football in England
There has been an advancement of professionalisation of women's football globally. Professional women's football in England has grown exponentially since the inception of the Football Association (FA) Women's Super League in 2011. This article offers an examination of the gender-specific needs of women as professional footballers, focusing specifically on the distinctive aspect of maternity policy. Sportswomen often feel compelled to make the dif…
The golf course doesn’t know what gender you are: Feminist Perspectives in the Online Blog of a Female Professional Golfer
Many female athletes are using online platforms to control their own portrayals, and such representations have been examined mostly through neoliberal and postfeminist perspectives, which position female athletes as responsible for their own self-promotion, visibility, success and failure. This paper seeks to employ these and other feminist frameworks in exploring how professional golfer Meghan MacLaren uses her online blog to respond to gender i…
Didn’t know she could shout that loud’: The performance of fandom among women followers of women’s golf
While a growing body of evidence exists around women fans of men’s sport, less is known about women fans’ perspectives and identities in relation to women’s sport, and what is known tends to focus on homogenous representations of sports fans, rather than a diversity of fan types and follower styles. Building on the authors’ previous appraisals of the Solheim Cup – the biggest event in women’s golf – this paper examines fan performances of women a…
National identities, European identity and cosmopolitanism: The case of female golf fans at the 2019 Solheim Cup
The aim of this paper is to consider the relationship between sport and identity formation by examining testimonies of 24 British women who attended the Solheim Cup golf tournament in 2019 to support a transnational team made up of professional European women players. Relatively little is known about the effects of transnational sports teams on identity formation, not least because such teams are themselves rare. The Solheim Cup, contested by tea…
It's sort of help yourself' - DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport
It has become something of a truism, that within various athletic subcultures pain and injury are regularly normalised as 'part of the game'. One clear consequence which flows from this empirical reality is that athletes often need medical care in various forms. Recent developments in the gendered structuring of sport means that sportswomen are increasingly centred within this process. Yet, there is a broad consensus from sportswomen and academic…
Still the Outsiders? Women in Sport Journalism
It has long been acknowledged that sport media is a male-dominated space, which has served to entrench women sport journalists’ position in the industry as outsiders. This research consisted of interviews with 10 women sport journalists working in the United Kingdom, exploring their workplace experiences. Drawing on Kanter’s theory of tokenism, findings indicate that women working in men’s sport face workplace practices that reinforce their outsi…
Participation, Performance, and Potential for Health: Towards Critical Geographies of Health and Sport
Organised sport settings serve as key spaces for the potential production, maintenance, and experience of health. Although scholars have highlighted the problematic practices associated with health in these settings, it remains that participation in organised sport can offer opportunities for distinct health and wellbeing benefits across a range of physical, mental, and social outcomes. Yet, geographic research has rarely explored organised sport…
Mental health and professional women footballers: A scoping review
This scoping review aimed to synthesize literature on mental health and professional women footballers and provide recommendations for future research. Four databases were searched for studies meeting the inclusion criteria. After screening over 1,100 articles, 10 met the inclusion criteria. All studies used quantitative methods and self-report measures to examine mental ill-health symptoms, mainly depression, anxiety, and eating disorder symptom…
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