Tag: gender

The last quarter century has seen a dramatic movement of girls and women into sports, but, according to a new study, this social change is not reflected in televised sports news and highlights shows. – “'It’s Dude Time!'

Karin Grahn is a Senior Lecturer of sport science in the Department of Food and Nutrition, and Sport Science at the University of Gothenburg. Karin has a PhD in pedagogics and is currently lecturing in the Sports Coaching programme as well as in teachers education programme for Physical education.

BefattningDocent i pedagogik, UniversitetslektorAdress Gymnastik- och drottshögskolan GIH, Box 5626, 114, 86 Stockholm E-mailForskningsinriktningPedagogik med inriktning mot idrott och estetiska lärprocesserPågående projekt...

The Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport invites scholars from the field of gender research in sport to Basel, Switzerland, in November, 2015. The meeting will take place at the School for Teacher Education of Northwestern Switzerland at the University of Basel.

Guest Editor: Nicole C. Dabbs PhD (California State University, San Bernardino)Background and Context Scholarly interest in female athletes is emerging rapidly and is at an all-time...

This list was compiled by Dr. Dominique Falls, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, assisted by various members of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) listserv.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics in the modern world and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. Special Issue: Gender, Media, Sport

Nya böcker brukar vanligtvis manifesteras på idrottsforum.org i form av en recension. Detta öde väntar också en ny editerad volym av Gerd von der Lippe oh Hans...

Transnational Body and Movement Cultures From a Gender Perspective13 – 15 November 2014, Copenhagen, DenmarkThe term ‘transnational’ refers to “sustained ties of persons, networks...

Just the other day, Sweden secured a place in the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada in 2015. Women Deliver, a global organization advocating for the...