Tag: women sports

What is it about culture and society that creates an environment in which an athlete is able to excel or fail in his/her respective sport? Which factors, such as racism, discrimination, financial advantage or hardship, propel or hinder an athlete’s achievements? This volume seeks to explore how the world of sports is often a microcosm of the real world and the many ways in which it uniquely reflects cultural and societal issues.

This special issue of the Sociology of Sport seeks to broaden the geographical, theoretical, social, cultural and intercultural scope of writing about women, gender and sport by assembling key contributions from feminist sport research undertaken in or by scholars from the Global South.

Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson is a qualitative sociologist and a graduate of the Universities of Warwick and South Wales. Her principal research interests cohere around the sociology of the body; embodiment and the senses; health and wellbeing; identity and identity work; sociological & feminist phenomenology; autoethnographic & auto-phenomenographic approaches.

Amerikanska International Skiing History Association (ISHA) utnämner boken License to Jump – A Story of Women’s Ski Jumping till årets skidbok i världen 2015 för att den gör "a single outstanding contribution to skiing’s historical record in published book form.” Varmt grattis till Marit Stub Nybelius, en av redaktörerna och författarna.

This is the final installment of the Malmö Research Seminar Series in Sport Sciences, Malmö University, Fall 2015, and it’s all about women in sports. The seminars will take place at the Orkanen building (Nordenskiöldsgatan 10) in Room E121c, between 15:15 to 17:00. This seminar is in Swedish.

Women and Sport is a unique initiative to publish scholarly knowledge about women's sports. The project began back in 2011, and in the fall of 2014, a large number of scientific texts on various aspects of women's sports have been published.

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...

The International Journal of the History of Sport is an international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. Special Issue: Women Biennial Issue

Soccer and Society is the first international journal devoted to the world’s most popular game. It covers all aspects of soccer globally from anthropological, cultural, economic, historical, political and sociological perspectives.

The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota, in partnership with tptMN, have produced “Media Coverage and...