To mark the 2013 International Women’s Day we have handpicked a collection of articles focusing on Women in Sport. Themes within this collection include Sport Science, Sport Psychology, Sport Sociology, Leisure Studies, Sport Politics and Policy, Sport and Education and finally, Book Reviews. All articles or reviews have their own focus or spin on women or gender studies.
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Sport Education & Leisure Studies
- Sport physiology research and governing gender in sport—a power–knowledge relation?Håkan Larsson
- Women Leaders in Sport: Where’s the Gender Equity?Dana Massengale & Nancy Lough
- The power game: Cultural influences on gender and leisureChiung-Tzu Lucetta Tsai
- A Reflection on Cultural Conflicts in Women’s LeisureChiung-Tzu Lucetta Tsai
- Reproducing, resisting and transcending discourses of femininity: a discourse analysis of women’s accounts of leisureMichelle N. Lafrance
Sport Politics & Policy
- Changes and variations in patterns of gender relations in equestrian sports during the second half of the twentieth centurySusanna Hedenborg & Manon Hedenborg White
- Gender and age inequalities in regular sports participation: A cross-national study of 25 European countriesCharlotte Van Tuyckom, Jeroen Scheerder & Piet Bracke
- Female top leaders – prisoners of gender? The gendering of leadership discourses in Norwegian sports organizationsJorid Hovden
- Sport, identity politics, gender and globalizationJoseph A. Maguire
- The governance of sport, gender and (dis)abilityKim Wickman
Sport Science
- Isokinetic hamstrings-to-quadriceps peak torque ratio: The influence of sport modality, gender, and angular velocityMarilia Dos Santos Andrade, Claudio Andre Barbosa De Lira, Fabiana De Carvalho Koffes, Naryana Cristina Mascarin, Ana Amélia Benedito-Silva & Antonio Carlos Da Silva
- Influence of gender and types of sports training on QT variables in young elite athletesKazuto Omiya, Hiromitsu Sekizuka, Keisuke Kida, Kengo Suzuki, Yoshihiro J. Akashi, Haruo Ohba & Haruki Musha
- Prospective study of sport dropout: A motivational analysis as a function of age and genderJose Francisco Guzmán & Kieran Kingston
Sport Sociology & Psychology
- Gender in equestrian sports: an issue of difference and equalityBirgitta Plymoth
- From Women and Sport to Gender and Sport: Transnational, Transdisciplinary, and Intersectional PerspectivesSusan J. Bandya, Gigliola Gorib & Dong Jinxiac
- Examining gender differences in the determinants of Masters Swimmers’ sport commitmentJennifer C. Wigglesworth, Bradley W. Young, Nikola Medic & J. Robert Grove
- Gender Differences in Adolescent Athletes’ Coping with Interpersonal Stressors in Sport: More Similarities than Differences?Sharleen D. Hoar, Peter R. E. Crocker, Nicholas L. Holt & Katherine A. Tamminen
- From Riot Grrrls to roller derby? Exploring the relations between gender, music and sportAdele Pavlidis
- Supremacy and subversion – gender struggles in sportRaewyn Connell