Tag: Maria Zuiderveld

Women’s Football in Africa by Chuka Onwumechili (Routledge) is the first book to take an in-depth look at women’s football in Africa, exploring its history, contemporary landscape, and the future development of the women’s game on the African continent. Maria Zuiderveld finds that while the book would have benefitted from a more comprehensive analysis of the gender gap in African football, it still offers new perspectives on the situation of women in African football.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport study journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sports such as professionalization, globalization, commercialization, urbanization, technologization, medicalization and juridification.

In her new book, The Sexual and Gender Politics of Sport Mega-Events: Roving Colonialism (Routledge), Heather Sykes studies the inclusion of the LGBT movement in mega sport-events, urging the former to recognise the exclusion of others in order for these events to take place. Maria Zuiderveld’s insightful review appreciates the book’s merits, while also pointing to its weaknesses.

In a new article published in Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, “Sex, Football and the Media: The Case of South Africa and the 2010 FIFA World Cup”, Maria Zuiderveld studies how South African media treated the issue of trafficking in relation of the football fest of 2010.