This book offers an in-depth examination of the 2023 FIFA Womens World Cup, 2023 FWWC, hosted in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. The 2023 FWWC was a landmark event in the history of womens sport, in terms of audience, revenue, spectacle and global reach, and has assumed wider significance beyond sport as a result of controversial events immediately after the final game.
Featuring the work of leading researchers from around the world, the book examines some of the key issues that arose during and after the 2023 FWWC. It provides an international perspective on the politics of womens football and explores topics including media, fandom, Indigeneity, legacy policies, tourism, and the organisational politics and strategies of international federations, as well as shedding light on the inherent sexism, gender inequalities, and biased media framings that remain pervasive in the womens game.
This is the second book on the 2023 FWWC from the editorial team of Adam Beissel, Julie Brice, Andy Grainger and Verity Postlethwaite, and is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport studies, event studies, gender studies, sociology or political science.
This book offers an in-depth examination of the 2023 FIFA Womens World Cup, 2023 FWWC, hosted in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.
Introduction: Critical Perspectives on the 2023 FIFA Womens World Cup:
Events, Issues, Controversies Adam Beissel, Julie E. Brice, Verity
Postlethwaite and Andy Grainger
PART I: Coverage of the 2023 Womens World Cup
1. #SeAcabó Movement: The Origin and Repercussion of Alexia Putellas' post on
X Joaquķn Piedra
2. Grievance Games: American Sport Grievance Culture and FOX Sports Coverage
of the United States Womens National Team During the 2023 FIFA Womens World
Cup
Eleanor Crabill, Matthew Holder and Adam Beissel
3. Streaming Like a Girl: The Case of Brazils Cazé TV During the 2023
Womens World Cup Soraya Barreto Januįrio and Jorge Knijnik
4. Examining the Female-Centric Messages within Sport-Based Television
Advertisements During the FIFA Womens World Cup 2023 Rachel Batty
5. Mediated Narratives of Health at the 2023 FIFA Womens World Cup Anna
Goorevich
PART II: Experiences of the 2023 Womens World Cup
6. Unpacking Motivation: Factors Influencing Womens Travel to the 2023 FIFA
Womens World Cup in Australia and New Zealand Jonathan R. Oliveira and
Felipe B. Tobar
7. Tricornes & Rainbow Flags: Contestation over Practices, Identities, and
Feminism in U.S. Womens National Team Fan Spaces Chris W. Henderson and
Eileen Narcotta-Welp
8. A Historic First: Exploring the Perspectives and Experiences of
Philippines Womens National Team Heritage Players and Supporters Kristi
Oshiro, Ashlyn Hardie and Marlene Dixon
9. A Collaborative Approach to Football Fieldwork: Feminist Reflexivity in
Action at the 2023 FIFA Womens World Cup
Julie E. Brice, Holly Thorpe, Tarlan Chahardovali, Eleanor Crabill, Lindsey
A. Freeman and Monica Nelson
10. Boots on the Ground: What it is Really Like Working in Football During a
FIFA Womens World Cup Alida Shanks and Chelsey Taylor
PART III: Navigating the 2023 Womens World Cup
11. The Long Rise of Women's Football in Morocco Kadija Bouyzourn, Andy
Grainger and Hillary J. Haldane
12. A Showcase for the Development of Womens Football in Africa? The 2023
FIFA Womens World Cup and the Under-Representation of Women Coaches Kevin
Braybrook and Andy Grainger
13. African Women Rising: Africa's 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Derek Catsam
14. Asias Growing Presence at the FIFA Womens World Cup Verity
Postlethwaite and Rei Saito
15. The Struggle of Colombian Women Footballers and the Political Dimensions
of the FIFA Officialised Era Post-1991 Gabrila Ardila Biela and Mark Biram
PART IV: Legacies of the 2023 Womens World Cup
16. Legacy 23 and Sport Participation for Women and Girls in Regional
Australia Alana Thomson, Millicent Kennelly, Meghan Casey and Kiera Staley
17. Beyond Greatness? 11 days in tepoti-Dunedin Mark Falcous and Madison
Poingdestre
18. Leaning on Legacy: Womens Football Fans and Progress Narratives of the
Womens World Cup Rachel Allison and Stacey Pope
19. FIFA Womens World Cup Lessons: Gender Pay Parity Strengthens Integrity
Catherine Ordway and Christina Philippou
20. Mind the Gap: FIFA, Womens Football, and the Progress Narratives of the
2023 FIFA Womens World Cup Andy Grainger and Adam Beissel
Adam Beissel is an Associate Professor of Sport Leadership and Management at Miami University, USA. Adams research and scholarship interrogates the political economy of sport mega-events and the geopolitics of sport. In addition to his research on the 2023 Womens World Cup, he is currently working on a research project exploring the geopolitics of the 2026 FIFA Mens World Cup jointly hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Julie E. Brice is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University Fullerton, USA. Julies research and scholarship focuses on the socio-cultural and political forces that impact womens experiences of their moving bodies and across womens sports more broadly. This includes explorations into womens fitness practices and understandings of their bodies, professional womens soccer and mega-events, and the use of posthumanist and new materialist theories for exploring fitness, sports, and physical culture.
Verity Postlethwaite is a Lecturer in Strategic Event Management in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. Veritys research and innovation projects focus on how events can be used as a catalyst for social and community changes. This includes examinations of gender inequalities, perceptions of disability, and geographical challenges across the life course and different facets of events hosted in the UK, Japan and Australia.
Andrew Grainger is a Lecturer in Sport Development, Leisure, and Recreation at Western Sydney University in Sydney, Australia. Andys research and teaching focuses on the critical, socio-historical analysis of sport, leisure, health, and physical culture. His current research projects explore the globalisation and political economy of football.
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