Multiple Identities in a Marginalized Culture

Female Youth in an “Inner-City” Recreation/Drop-In Center

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2348867
AutoresBrian Wilson (0000-0002-5237-4771, School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia), Philip White (0000-0001-6087-8286, McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada), Kathryn Fisher (0000-0002-1774-4431, McMaster University), Karen Fisher (0000-0001-7715-0670, McMaster University’s Physical Education Programme and Physiotherapy Programme)
Ano2001
Volume25
Fascículo3
Páginas301-323
Data de publicação2001-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0193723501253006
OpenAlexW1978839468
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas30

This article is a theoretical and empirical examination of female youth culture in recreation/drop-in centers. The authors attempt to integrate theories of female participation in leisure and sport with more mainstream perspectives on female youth subcultures. A gender-sensitive, cultural studies-based perspective emerges, underscored by a (Chicago-style) symbolic interactionist approach to understanding social process. Research findings from an ethnographic study of female youth in one such center in southern Ontario, Canada, are presented, with particular attention to how the various beliefs, behaviors, and customs that characterized female youth culture in the center were created, maintained, and referred to as the basis for interaction. The study findings showed that experiences within the center, although generally positive, were varied and extremely gendered, with female youth marginalized in the informal, male-dominated sport culture. Moreover, the findings revealed that among these youth, there existed simultaneously a resistance to broader, gender-and class-based limitations on sport participation and a reproduction of informal power structures. The relevance of these findings to theoretical understandings of female youth culture and youth-centered organizations and to practical and strategic approaches to programming for 'at-risk' female youth are assessed, and suggestions for future research in this sparse area are provided

Developmental psychology · Ethnography · Mainstream · Participant observation · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Positive Youth Development · Recreation · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Youth culture · Youth studies · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society