Rising to the Gender Challenge in Scotland

Women's Embodiment of the Disposition to be Mountaineers

Bibliographic Data

ID2378737
AuthorsEmmanuelle Tulle (0000-0002-9225-4256, Glasgow Caledonian University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume57
Issue8
Pages1301-1320
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/10126902221078748
OpenAlexW4214743453
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited26

Mountains have long been dominated by men and hypermasculine practices. Women have worked hard to find a legitimate space in them. This paper is drawn from a qualitative study which explores the experiences of 10 women, based in Scotland, who have dedicated part of their lives to mountains. It adds to existing insights on women who have made inroads into mountaineering. Conceptualising mountaineering as a social field structured by masculine domination, the paper seeks to understand the conditions which have enabled the women to successfully embody a disposition to mountaineering over time and interrogates how the women's practices represent a challenge to the continuing dominance of men and hypermasculine narratives that prevail in this field. The paper shows that a number of structural changes in wider society and in mountaineering have enabled women to claim a mountaineering identity but that the field continues to be inflected by narratives of exclusion

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Mountaineering · Narrative · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Gender Studies · History · Outdoor and Experiential Education · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management

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