Amanda Schweinbenz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Schweinbenz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Schweinbenz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWEINBENZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Laurentian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4930-5126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Throw, sweep, thrive and belong: A small story narrative analysis of sense of community meanings for elite curler mothers on Instagram
To advance understanding of socially constructed motherhood and sport, researchers are exploring elite athlete mothers’ sporting comebacks on social media (e.g. Instagram). The role of community aspects (e.g. belongingness, trust) linked to athlete mothers’ sporting career negotiation in digital media holds potential to expand understanding of socio-cultural career affordances for these sportswomen. This study explored the sense of community mean…
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism
This article pays homage to Black Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) players and their activist efforts. Such players are often-overlooked activists who are always “holdin it down” while simultaneously keeping activism at the forefront of their agenda. When the 2020 Women’s National Basketball Association season opened, the athletes in this league took the opportunity to highlight social injustice in the United States; not surprising …
The Switch Up: BlackCrit, The Heritage, and the Wave of Athletic Racial Capitalism
In this article, the authors examine the period of time between Edwards' third and fourth waves of athlete activism, featuring a lapse in The Heritage of Black athlete activism efforts. By applying a Black Critical Theory lens and analyzing athletes like Michael Jordan in the apolitical era of Black athletes, this study provides contextual understandings in addressing the gap in Black athlete activism and advancement from the 1980s to the late 20…
Inside/Out
The field of sport history, as productive of history, is reckoning with the asymmetries of racial power and representations that constitutes the field. This paper provides a meaningful intervention for how sport historians and sport studies scholars who wish to publish in sport history can change the practices that constitute how they do their work and how the field of study is organized. First, we interrogate the ways in which “objective” inside…
Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women’s Sport
Book Review| October 01 2017 Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women’s Sport Pieper, Lindsay Parks. Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women’s Sport. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pp. 250. Bibliography. $22.95, pb. $95.00, hb. Amanda N. Schweinbenz Amanda N. Schweinbenz Laurentian University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2017) 44 (3): 522–523. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.44…
Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport
Book Review| October 01 2016 Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport Henne, Kathryn E. Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015. Pp. 228. $90, hb. $28.95, pb. $28.95, eb. Amanda N. Schweinbenz Amanda N. Schweinbenz Laurentian University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2016) 43 (3): 349–350.…
Traversing the qualitative–quantitative divide using mixed methods: Some reflections and reconciliations for sport and exercise psychology
The aim of this paper was to provide commentary on one prevalent theme found in many of the articles within the current special issue: the notion of moving beyond a qualitative–quantitative divide using mixed methods to help navigate and/or reconcile this divide. This commentary highlights several key controversial issues in mixed methods literature within the social sciences in order to raise critical consciousness about such issues. We explore …
Against Hegemonic Currents: Women's Rowing into the First Half of the Twentieth Century
While women's rowing events were formally introduced onto the programme of the European Rowing Championships in 1954, oarswomen had long been paddling across lakes and rivers throughout the world. As early as the 1500s, there were references made to women's participation in the sport. However, like other sports, the majority of information on the history of rowing has focussed primarily on men's participation. It has been recognized that socially…
Selling Femininity: The Introduction of Women's Rowing at the 1976 Olympic Games
Despite insistence to the contrary by the former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Avery Brundage, sport and politics are inextricably linked. Nowhere else was this more evident than
Little Girls in Pretty Shells: The Introduction of Lightweight Women's Events in Competitive International Rowing
In a sport that was predominantly ‘masculine’, women struggled for recognition, not least because they were regarded as weaker and therefore inferior to men; in addition, the dominant discourse within rowing suggested that to compete at the highest level would compromise an oarswoman's femininity. Thus, when women were admitted to international competition in 1954 it was under special conditions. Thereafter, though heavyweight oarswomen competed …
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism
This article pays homage to Black Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) players and their activist efforts. Such players are often-overlooked activists who are always “holdin it down” while simultaneously keeping activism at the forefront of their agenda. When the 2020 Women’s National Basketball Association season opened, the athletes in this league took the opportunity to highlight social injustice in the United States; not surprising …
Selling Femininity: The Introduction of Women's Rowing at the 1976 Olympic Games
Despite insistence to the contrary by the former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Avery Brundage, sport and politics are inextricably linked. Nowhere else was this more evident than
Little Girls in Pretty Shells: The Introduction of Lightweight Women's Events in Competitive International Rowing
In a sport that was predominantly ‘masculine’, women struggled for recognition, not least because they were regarded as weaker and therefore inferior to men; in addition, the dominant discourse within rowing suggested that to compete at the highest level would compromise an oarswoman's femininity. Thus, when women were admitted to international competition in 1954 it was under special conditions. Thereafter, though heavyweight oarswomen competed …
Selling Femininity: The Introduction of Women's Rowing at the 1976 Olympic Games
Despite insistence to the contrary by the former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Avery Brundage, sport and politics are inextricably linked. Nowhere else was this more evident than
Against Hegemonic Currents: Women's Rowing into the First Half of the Twentieth Century
While women's rowing events were formally introduced onto the programme of the European Rowing Championships in 1954, oarswomen had long been paddling across lakes and rivers throughout the world. As early as the 1500s, there were references made to women's participation in the sport. However, like other sports, the majority of information on the history of rowing has focussed primarily on men's participation. It has been recognized that socially…
Traversing the qualitative–quantitative divide using mixed methods: Some reflections and reconciliations for sport and exercise psychology
The aim of this paper was to provide commentary on one prevalent theme found in many of the articles within the current special issue: the notion of moving beyond a qualitative–quantitative divide using mixed methods to help navigate and/or reconcile this divide. This commentary highlights several key controversial issues in mixed methods literature within the social sciences in order to raise critical consciousness about such issues. We explore …
Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport
Book Review| October 01 2016 Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport Henne, Kathryn E. Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015. Pp. 228. $90, hb. $28.95, pb. $28.95, eb. Amanda N. Schweinbenz Amanda N. Schweinbenz Laurentian University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2016) 43 (3): 349–350.…
Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women’s Sport
Book Review| October 01 2017 Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women’s Sport Pieper, Lindsay Parks. Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women’s Sport. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pp. 250. Bibliography. $22.95, pb. $95.00, hb. Amanda N. Schweinbenz Amanda N. Schweinbenz Laurentian University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2017) 44 (3): 522–523. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.44…
Inside/Out
The field of sport history, as productive of history, is reckoning with the asymmetries of racial power and representations that constitutes the field. This paper provides a meaningful intervention for how sport historians and sport studies scholars who wish to publish in sport history can change the practices that constitute how they do their work and how the field of study is organized. First, we interrogate the ways in which “objective” inside…
A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism
This article pays homage to Black Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) players and their activist efforts. Such players are often-overlooked activists who are always “holdin it down” while simultaneously keeping activism at the forefront of their agenda. When the 2020 Women’s National Basketball Association season opened, the athletes in this league took the opportunity to highlight social injustice in the United States; not surprising …
The Switch Up: BlackCrit, The Heritage, and the Wave of Athletic Racial Capitalism
In this article, the authors examine the period of time between Edwards' third and fourth waves of athlete activism, featuring a lapse in The Heritage of Black athlete activism efforts. By applying a Black Critical Theory lens and analyzing athletes like Michael Jordan in the apolitical era of Black athletes, this study provides contextual understandings in addressing the gap in Black athlete activism and advancement from the 1980s to the late 20…
Throw, sweep, thrive and belong: A small story narrative analysis of sense of community meanings for elite curler mothers on Instagram
To advance understanding of socially constructed motherhood and sport, researchers are exploring elite athlete mothers’ sporting comebacks on social media (e.g. Instagram). The role of community aspects (e.g. belongingness, trust) linked to athlete mothers’ sporting career negotiation in digital media holds potential to expand understanding of socio-cultural career affordances for these sportswomen. This study explored the sense of community mean…
Sports, Gender, and Society (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (5 works) · Doping in Sports (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works)