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Tess Howard – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
This paper reports the findings of a mixed-methods study which investigates the socio-cultural impacts of UK gendered school sport uniform and the role uniform plays in shaping female school sport experiences. Drawing on an extensive analytical survey with over 400 women of all-ages and 8 interviews with women aged 18-24, it explores how school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dress Codes, School Uniforms, Secondary School Students
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Lewis, Colin J.; Roberts, Simon J.; Andrews, Hazel – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the provision of formal coach education. However, research has repeatedly demonstrated how coach education has had a limited impact on the learning and development of coach practitioners. To date however, these investigations have avoided female coach populations. Ten women football coaches…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Team Sports, Semi Structured Interviews, Gender Discrimination
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Pope, Stacey; Kirk, David – Sport, Education and Society, 2014
The experiences of female sports fans have been largely marginalised in academic research to date and little research has examined the formative sporting experiences of female spectators. This article draws on 51 semi-structured interviews with three generations of female fans of one (men's) professional football club (Leicester City), to consider…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Experience, Womens Athletics, Team Sports
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Hill, Joanne; Azzarito, Laura – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2012
Background: Status or value in sport and physical education (PE) contexts is often associated with performances of highly proficient sporting bodies, which produce hierarchies of privileged and marginalised gendered and racialised positions. This may be communicated through text and images shared within school, physical cultures and media that…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Womens Athletics, Physical Activities, Females
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Dashper, Katherine – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2012
Sex segregation is a core organising principle of most modern sports and is a key element in the marginalisation and subordination of girls and women in sport and beyond. In this article I explore the only Olympic-level sport which is not organised around sex segregation--equestrian sport--in order to consider the implications of sex integration…
Descriptors: Womens Athletics, Sex Fairness, Athletics, Social Bias
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Biscomb, Kay – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2012
In 1914 opportunities for working-class women's sports participation were limited and peripheral, but the 1980s, policy reforms resulted in the then Sports Council identifying women as a "target group". Subsequently the notion that barriers to women's participation are issues to be identified and resolved has become commonplace in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Athletics, History, Genealogy