Superwomen? Young sporting women, temporality and learning not to be perfect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2378659 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noora J Ronkainen (0000-0003-3785-0458, University of Jyväskylä, corresponding author), J Allen-Collinson (0000-0003-2146-8000, University of Lincoln), Kenneth Aggerholm (0000-0002-1315-6325, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences), Tatiana V Ryba (0000-0002-3218-4938, University of Jyväskylä) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1137-1153 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1012690220979710 |
| OpenAlex | W3111557691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 37 |
New forms of neoliberal femininity create demanding horizons of expectation for young women. For talented athletes, these pressures are intensified by the establishment of dual-career discourses that construct the combination of high-performance sport and education as a normative, 'ideal' pathway. The pressed time perspective inherent in dual-careers requires athletes to employ a variety of time-related skills, especially for young women who aim to live up to 'superwoman' ideals that valorise 'success' in all walks of life. Drawing on existential phenomenology, and in-depth interviews with 10 talented Finnish sportswomen (aged 19-22), we explored their experiences of lived time when pursuing dual-careers in upper secondary sport schools. Exploring participants' bodily experiences of inhabiting the achievement life-world, we analyse how these sportswomen either learned ways of living up to this ambitious script or came to understand the detrimental effects of the script, necessitating other ways of being. For those who experience a disjuncture between the 'perfect' and their embodied experience, self-care practices are needed to restore life-world harmony, and orient to alternative futures
Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Existentialism · Femininity · Normative · Sociology · Temporality · Visual arts · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Social Psychology · Sport Psychology and Performance
The role of gender and coaching styles in adolescent student-athletes’ motivational orientations in sport and school
Unveiling the longitudinal reciprocal relationship between burnout and engagement among adolescent athletes in sport schools
‘They’re making it really hard for us’
Pleasure and danger
Beyond life-skills
I would have studied while I showered’
Power, discourse, and practice
You can definitely tell she's truly committed
A race against time
Earth(l)y pleasures and air-borne bodies
The Body and Social Theory
Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
The Phenomenological Mind
The phenomenology of the social world
‘Ploughing on’
From identification to dis-identification
I wanna tell you a story
Learning in sport
Future Girls, transcendent femininities and new pedagogies
Development of School and Sport Burnout in Adolescent Student‐Athletes
The 'feminisation of schooling' or 're-masculinising' primary education?[1]
Climbing like a Girl
Burnout among Adolescent Athletes
Running into Injury Time
Positive Deviance among Athletes
I Just Want to Be Left Alone”
Perceived Gender Role Prescriptions in Schools, the Superwoman Ideal, and Disordered Eating Among Adolescent Girls
Notes on the Perfect
Successful girls? Complicating post-feminist, neoliberal discourses of educational achievement and gender equality
Intense Embodiment
Having it All' on Social Media
Doing' competitive swimming
Reproduction and opportunity
The life of high-level athletes
Conformers, Contesters, Creators
Doing Gender
Hegemonic Masculinity
Endurance Work
| Citations per year | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |