2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 28: Sport and Gender 3

8 Jun 2022, 13:30

Description

Chair: Eivind Skille
Room: B9N22, Building B Level 9

92. Rising to the Gender Challenge in Scotland: Women’s Embodiment of the Disposition to be Mountaineers

Emmanuelle Tulle

08/06/2022, 13:30

Mountains have long been dominated by men and hypermasculine practices. Women have worked hard to find a legitimate space in them. This presentation is drawn from a qualitative study which explored the experiences of 10 women, based in Scotland, who have dedicated part of their lives to mountains. It adds to existing insights on women who have made inroads into mountaineering. ...

93. International policy development on sport and gender: A case study of Taiwan

Yichun Huang, Dong-Jhy Hwang

08/06/2022, 13:50

In 1994, the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) organized the first international conference on women and sports. IWG also published the Brighton Declaration, vitally important for the advocacy for women in sport. In 2017, Taiwan released the White Paper on Women’s Participating in Sport, the first sports policy document focusing specifically on women and sports, also...

94. “There’s a guy in a place where women teach women”: Exploring male instructors in female-oriented physical exercises

Yunjung Kim

08/06/2022, 14:10

As Korean culture embraces and encourages males to produce and reinforce their masculinity from daily activities to professional occupations, males entering “female-zones” can be viewed as unnatural. However, there has recently been an increase in the participation of males as practitioners and instructors in female-oriented exercises such as yoga, Pilates and pole dance. Therefore, this study...

95. The team as a shelter against a hostile environment. Non-heteronormative Polish female soccer players in struggling for recognition

Radosław Kossakowski, Natalia Organista

08/06/2022, 14:30

Women football has become the arena of emancipation processes - many recognized female footballers have come out, becoming the icons of equality campaigns. However, there is still a lack of research on the situation of non-heteronormative female soccer players and existing research have been conducted in Western countries (Scobie 2020). The aim of this paper is to fill this gap as it is...