Tag: Hanya Pielichaty

Progressive and broad-ranging, The Routledge Handbook of Gender Politics in Sport and Physical Activity edited by Győző Molnár and Rachael Bullingham, offers a comprehensive overview of the complex intersections between politics, gender, sport and physical activity. In her thorough, competent and highly useful review of this 32 chapters anthology, Anna Sätre highlights the underlying aims of the collection, some detectable trends among the contributions, and several of the chapters that stand out for their critical and innovative approaches.

Sport, Education and Society encourages contributions from social scientists and educationalists studying the relationships between pedagogy, ‘the body’ and society, The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: How school-built factors and organisational dimensions contribute to bodily exposure, degrading treatment and bullying in school changing rooms by Camilla Forsberg, Paul Horton & Robert Thornberg (open access).

The edited collection Women’s Football by Jacky Forsyth and Claire-Marie Roberts (Routledge) provides a thorough, yet straightforward and accessible, analysis of the key physiological, biomechanical and social-psychological issues that can be applied to achieve women’s footballing development. Our knowledgeable reviewer Payam Ansari in turn provides a useful introduction to this rich tome which offers cutting-edge insights into all aspects of women’s football, including match play, talent identification, eating disorders, and breast health.

Introducing the core concepts, issues and debates in the study of gender and sport, Hanya Pielichaty’s Gender, Sport and Society: An Introduction (Routledge) is an accessible textbook for anyone studying or interested in sport. Anna Maria Hellborg concludes that Pielichaty has written a relevant and nuanced introduction to the complex issue of gender and sport, however, she also finds that the overall structure of the book is open to certain objections. For instance, she would have liked to see a more comprehensive tretment of the concept and phenomenon of intersectionality.

Through a social justice and equity lens, Families, Sport, Leisure and Social Justice: From Protest to Progress edited by Dawn E. Trussell & Ruth Jeanes (Routledge) examines how families, sport, and leisure connect to broader social issues in society. We asked Solveig Straume, Norwegian sociologist for a review. She finds the collection an interesting read and a timely scholarly contribution, however with an unfortunate predominance of Global North perspectives.

IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: SPORTSCAPES: CONTESTED BODIES, GENDER AND DESIRE WITHIN A FEMALE AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL TEAM by Kellie Sanders.

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health is a landmark publication – it is the first international journal solely dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of qualitative research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences. Open to all qualitative approaches, QRSEH aims to be eclectic in content. It will publish refereed articles covering the diverse landscape of qualitative research.