2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 39: Sport and Gender 4

8 Jun 2022, 15:30

Description

Chair: Dominic Malcolm
Room: B9N22, Building B Level 9

128. Taiwanese Female Experiences of Participation in Extreme Sports

Yu-Hsuan Lin

08/06/2022, 15:30

This paper examines the Taiwanese female experiences of participation in extreme sports, contributing to research on gender culture in extreme sports as well as the constraints faced by women. In recent years extreme sports have attracted many people who like to challenge themselves. However, compared with traditional sports categories, there has been little research focusing on female aspects...

129. Male Sports Participation and Beliefs of Male-Dominance: A Cross- National Analysis on Gender Ideologies

Simon Lütkewitte

08/06/2022, 15:50

Gender equality is a cornerstone of liberal democracy and a frequent subject to research in the social sciences. While research shows progress in many Western societies over the past decades, it shows notable segregation by gender in several life domains. A prominent example of continuing segregation by gender is sports participation. Already in the 1980’s, Messner argued that sports...

131. Gender inclusion in Norwegian eSports organisations

Lucy Piggott, Anne Tjønndal, Jorid Hovden

08/06/2022, 16:10

Sport leadership and governance is widely recognized as being gender-imbalanced and gender-inequitable. With the emergence of eSports, new organisations have been established both internationally and in the Nordic countries. Unlike most sporting contexts, eSports performance does not depend on physical abilities. This has led practitioners to argue that eSports have the potential to become...

130. Risk Cultures, Zones and Parameters: A Framework for Understanding Experiences of Sports-Related Risk amongst Female Athletes

Matthew Nesbitt

This paper, rooted in the sociology of sport and inspired by Kevin Young’s framework on Pain Cultures, Zones and Parameters (2004), re-conceptualises Young’s work in order to develop an understanding of the central dimensions of sports-related risk and generate a more sophisticated picture of the complex and often contradictory ways in which female athletes encounter (perceptually and...