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Fernandez-Lasa, Uxue; Usabiaga Arruabarrena, Oidui; Lozano-Sufrategui, Lorena; Drew, Kevin J. – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
The aim of this paper is to explore how female players of Basque pelota (pelotaris) construct their gender identity in a traditionally masculine sport. The theory of performativity is used to understand how females negotiate, resist or challenge the dominant gender discourse. Data were collected through 10 in-depth interviews with players. Through…
Descriptors: Females, Racquet Sports, Sexual Identity, Gender Bias
Glenn, Wendy J.; King-Watkins, Danielle – Children's Literature in Education, 2020
This literary analysis draws upon navigational identity theory to examine the experiences of female protagonists who choose to play on boys' athletic teams. The study analyzes ten middle grade and young adult novels published between 2005 and 2017 to explore the question, How are the female protagonists represented in the navigation of changing…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Females, Athletes, Athletics
Fuller, Rhema D.; Harrison, C. Keith; Bukstein, Scott J.; Martin, Brandon E.; Lawrence, S. Malia; Gadsby, Paige – Urban Education, 2020
The intersection of education, sport, and identity are important topics for urban education and educators. Using data collected from interviews with 27 African American male college athletes, the current study investigated the lived experiences of this demographic group as they formed ideas about "self" within the realm of higher…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, College Athletics, Athletes
Dündar, Aykut; Koç, Mine – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the Body Areas Satisfaction Levels and Gender Roles of female wrestlers. The sample of the study is constituted by 39 female wrestlers in Turkey Olympic Preparation Center in Edirne in 2017. As the data collection tool in the research; to determine the Body Areas Satisfaction Levels…
Descriptors: Females, Athletes, Human Body, Self Concept
Kalkan, Naci; Engin, Sabiha Gizem – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
In this study, by determining the thoughts of women footballers about their experiences in football fields; aims to reveal female footballers and social reactions, and to take steps towards solving the problems. A semi-structured interview form created by the researchers consisting of a total of five questions was used in the interviews with the…
Descriptors: Females, Athletes, Team Sports, Physical Education
Kalkan, Naci; Engin, Sabiha Gizem – Online Submission, 2020
In this study, by determining the thoughts of women footballers about their experiences in football fields; aims to reveal female footballers and social reactions, and to take steps towards solving the problems. A semi-structured interview form created by the researchers consisting of a total of five questions was used in the interviews with the…
Descriptors: Females, Athletes, Team Sports, Physical Education
Bastug, Gulsum; Yilmaz, Taner; Bingol, Erkan; Gunel, Ilker – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2019
The Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI), conducted by Hart et al. (2008) and adapted to Turkish by Dogan as Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SAAS) (Dogan, 2010) was used in our study. In the analysis of the data, t-test and ANOVA test were used. As a result; There was a significant difference between female athletes' hormone use variable and appearance…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Sex Role, Turkish, Foreign Countries
Gerek, Zinnur – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
We investigated whether doing sports has any effect on the androgynous characteristics of women. In 15 universities from different regions of Turkey, a questionnare was administered to 341 students (170 elite sportlers from nine sport categories and 171 sedantary controls) during the 2012-2013 study period. The Bem sex role inventory was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Athletics, Gender Differences
Russell, Kate; Lemon, Jessica – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2012
New emerging sports such as snowboarding reflect the possibility for a range of femininities and masculinities to be embodied by participants and in so doing have the potential to be more egalitarian that traditional sports. This article draws on a study conducted on snowboarding to extend the body of knowledge relating to female experiences of…
Descriptors: Females, Sex Role, Gender Bias, Athletes
Norman, Leanne – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore strategies for the development of aspiring female coaches based on the ideas of existing high-performance female coaches. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with national-level female coaches in the United Kingdom, four recurrent ideas for developing female coaches in a male-dominated profession emerged.…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Athletes, Career Development
Fasting, Kari; Brackenridge, Celia – Sport, Education and Society, 2009
Sexual harassment in sport has become an active research field within the past decade yet we know relatively little about the characteristics of the harassing coach. How are harassing coaches characterised by their victims, that is, the athletes themselves? Do they demonstrate specific kinds of behaviours? One purpose of this article is to address…
Descriptors: Scripts, Sexual Harassment, Athletes, Social Sciences
Blom, Lindsey C.; Abrell, Lura; Wilson, Matthew J.; Lape, Jennifer; Halbrook, Meghan; Judge, Lawrence W. – ICHPER-SD Journal of Research, 2011
Historically, men have dominated the athletic arena; as a result, the number of women in sport management positions has been limited (Cashmore, 2000; Coakley, 2010). Even rarer is the opportunity for female coaches to coach male sport teams. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of women who have coached male…
Descriptors: Females, Athletes, Males, College Athletics
Mean, Lindsey J.; Kassing, Jeffrey W. – Western Journal of Communication, 2008
The community of sport is a powerful site for the construction of masculinity, male identities, and heterosexuality. Consequently, the increased entry of women into the sporting arena has been actively resisted, with women athletes either excluded or framed within traditional, sexualized discourses of femininity and heterosexuality. Yet Title IX…
Descriptors: Females, Athletes, Sexual Orientation, Discourse Analysis
Fallon, Melissa A.; Jome, LaRae M. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2007
Gender-role conflict theory has suggested that women athletes will experience role conflict because they are attempting to enact both feminine and masculine gender roles, yet research findings have shown mixed support for this notion. The purpose of this study was to explore how women rugby players negotiate gender-role expectations and conflict…
Descriptors: Females, Role Conflict, Athletes, Sex Role
Guillet, Emma; Sarrazin, Philippe; Fontayne, Paul; Brustad, Robert J. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2006
An empirical research study based upon the expectancy-value model of Eccles and colleagues (1983) investigated the effect of gender-role orientations on psychological dimensions of female athletes' sport participation and the likelihood of their continued participation in a stereotypical masculine activity. The model (Eccles et al., 1983) posits…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Females, Athletes, Athletics
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