‘We’re, like, a cute rugby team’

How whiteness and heterosexuality shape women’s sense of belonging in rugby

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21118872
AutoresAnima Adjepong (0000-0001-5796-1046, The University of Texas at Austin, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume52
Fascículo2
Páginas209-222
Data de publicação2017-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1012690215584092
OpenAlexW2333333607
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas30
Referências citadas49

This article considers how race and sexuality mutually inform the ways women experience their sense of belonging in sport. An examination of how white and heterosexual privilege structure belonging for 15 women rugby players in the sport finds that the ways in which some players assert their belonging runs the risk of reifying oppressive norms associated with heterosexual femininity and white privilege. This analysis provides a nuanced understanding of how individual women may rely on certain structures of domination to take up space in sport in ways that rely on and reproduce inequality. Although women rugby players may challenge norms of (white) heterosexual femininity, they experience these norms as mediated through their particular social locations. As a result, how women rugby players take up space in sport may be complicated by their specific relationship to social constructions of gender, sexuality, and race

Femininity · Heterosexuality · Human sexuality · Masculinity · Political science · Sociology · White privilege · Gender Studies · Physical Education and Pedagogy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society