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Leeds  Metropolitan University’s Research Centre for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of Jennifer Hargreaves’ book, Sporting Females: Critical Issues  in the History and Sociology of Women’s Sport. In recognition of this seminal work, scholars engaged in historical, sociological, philosophical and practitioner research about  sporting females and/or...

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.

The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota, in partnership with tptMN, have produced “Media Coverage and Female Athletes: Women Play Sports, Just Not in the Media,” a documentary that uses research-based information to examine the amount and type of coverage given to female athletes. Length 52 mins. Several sport sociology scholars including Drs. Mary...

Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JSSI) brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. Using an international, interdisciplinary perspective, JSSI examines today's most pressing and far-reaching questions about sport.

The editors of this anthology invite previously unpublished papers on women’s boxing in Canada, the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. We are seeking proposals for research papers (maximum 6,000 words) and case studies of current or former pugilists (maximum 4,000 words). Chapters may use historical, contemporary, comparative, or interdisciplinary perspectives. Topics may include: Historical Legacies of Early Women’s Boxing The Policing or...

The latest Catalyst eNewsletter Table of Content: The movement is YOU Kicking boundaries Girls and Football SA Q & A with "Girls with Balls" author Tim Tate Women and Cycling: new measures in the pipeline Women’s Sport Leadership Academy 2014 IFAF endorses the Brighton Declaration IOAPA endorses the Brighton Declaration International Gender and Sport Forum in Africa Go to the eNewsletter page at the IWG website.

CfP, the Second Biennial Edition of The International Journal of the History of Sport – Sport, Women, and Society: International Perspectives Since the 1970s, increasing national, regional, and international interest in the topic of women and sport has resulted in conferences, seminars, and workshops devoted to the topic as well as the formation of national, regional, and international organizations that have given political...

Routledge is taking a look back at its Themes of the Month in 2013 and giving us ll access to the entire collection for freefor one month only! Click here for your last chance to enjoy these collections. The themes so far this year have been: Rugby, tailored to the Six Nations; Sport, Physical Activity and Health, in support of World Cancer Day; Women in Sport, in support...

”Ska först bli mamma – sedan bäst i världen” sa Susanna Kallur när hon gick ut med att hon var gravid. Therese Alshammar, Sofia Paldanius, Josefine Öqvist, Anna Lindberg – ja det är många elitidrottande kvinnor som väljer att bli mamma och sedan återgå till sin elitsatsning. Är det en trend? Hur länge kan du träna under din graviditet? Hur...

The Journal of Sport History is published three times a year by the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH). The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes.