Challenging the Hegemony

New Zealand Women's Opposition to Rugby and the Reproduction of a Capitalist Patriarchy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2379134
AutoresShona Thompson (University of Otago, autor correspondente), Shona M Thompson (University of Otago)
Ano1988
Volume23
Fascículo3
Páginas205-212
Data de publicação1988-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/101269028802300303
OpenAlexW2035131595
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas4

In 1981, women were very prominent in the organised opposition to a South African rugby team touring New Zealand. While overtly opposing racial discrimination, it is argued their protest action was motivated by anger at the exclusively male sport of rugby. They challenged the values, gender relations and power which are symbolised and reproduced by the sport. Such power, with a base in patriarchy, agriculturally based capitalism and white supremacy has excluded and oppressed women. Events since 1981 suggest that such protests made a substantial contribution to an emerging hegemony in New Zealand whereby previous power concentrations shifted considerably

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