Challenging Hegemony Through Narrative

Centering Women’s Experiences and Establishing a Sis-Science Culture Through a Women-Only Doping Forum

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13049136
AutoresJesper Andreasson (0000-0003-1631-6475, Linnaeus University, autor correspondente), Annette Henning (0000-0003-3276-0533, University of Stirling)
Ano2021
Volume10
Fascículo4
Páginas708-729
Data de publicação2021-03-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCommunication & Sport (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2167-4795 • E-ISSN: 2167-4809
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/21674795211000657
OpenAlexW3139024761
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas62

Understandings of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs) and their use has largely been conceptualized through the lens of male hegemonic patterns, treating women’s doping as a threat to the “natural” gender order. This article focuses on an exclusive, women-only online IPED forum. It aims to describe and analyze how this new forum was met within the broader doping community, and how issues related to IPED use and gender are addressed by women when their views are not backgrounded by potential male commentators and misogynistic discourses. The results show that first-hand knowledge is disseminated by women, which contributes to the foundation of a women’s ethnopharmacological (sub)culture. Women, their bodies, and experiences become the standard and the “unspoken” norm in the discussions. The secluded space allows women to challenge patterns of hegemonic masculinity, while building and reinforcing women’s experiences, bodies, and expertise as the standard. This stresses the importance of moving beyond hegemonic conceptualizations to understand the ongoing socio-cultural changes to the gender balance of IPED use and to center women’s doping experiences, and the risks associated with use. This has implications for the formation and development of both this community and of a “sis-science” based on women’s knowledge and experience

Art · Hegemonic masculinity · Hegemony · Masculinity · Narrative · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Sociology · Women in science · Doping in Sports · Gender Studies · Law · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Sports, Gender, and Society