This book takes a close look at politics and social issues in the context of the 2023 FIFA Womens World Cup, one of the most attended womens sporting events in history. Featuring the work of leading researchers from around the world, the book is arranged into two thematic sections, with the first examining power structures and inequalities and the second exploring nationalism, identities, and experiencing the womens game.
The book presents a series of important and fascinating cases - including campaigns for equal pay for players; governance, ethics and womens rights in Spanish football; the legacies of the Australian Matildas; and the impact of fan spaces that together form a multi-layered picture of a signature event in the history of womens sport.
This book is vital reading for anybody with an interest in womens sport, gender and sport, the sociology of sport, the politics of sport, event studies or sport business and management.
This book presents a series of important and fascinating cases - including campaigns for equal pay for players; governance, ethics and womens rights in Spanish football; the legacies of the Australian Matildas; and the impact of fan spaces that together form a multi-layered picture of a signature event in the history of womens sport.
Introduction: Considerations on the impact of womens soccer and the
global game, PART I On power structures, inequalities, and womens football,
1. The evolution and politicization of the Womens World Cup,
2. FIFAs
relationship to indigeneity in the 2023 Womens World Cup and beyond.
Coloniality or commitment?,
3. Female soccer players on a mission to
eliminate structural inequalities: Equal pay for equal play,
4. The
experiences (and challenges) of girls who want to play soccer in Burkina
Faso,
5. "Se Acabó": Spanish Women's Resistance to Patriarchy and the 2023
FIFA Women's World Cup6. Governance, ethics, and womens rights in Spain:
Sporting success in turbulent times7. What does Carly Lloyd really want? A
rhetorical analysis, PART II On nationalism, identities and experiencing the
womens game,
8. Interrogating representations and Colombian footballing
narratives of nation around the Womens World Cup 2023: Of voids and
(in)visibilities,
9. The Filipinas writing World Cup herstory in
contestations on gender, race, and nationality in Philippine sport,
10.
Sexism, homophobia, and conservative backlash to the U.S. Womens National
Team entering the 2023 World Cup: The new woke queen(s),
11. How does a
national womens soccer team resonate with schoolchildren? The Republic of
Ireland womens soccer team and the 2023 Womens World Cup,
12. Emergence and
divergence of Fan Zones at the 2023 Womens World Cup: Beyond the stadium,
13. Examining new narratives of fandom at the 2023 Womens World Cup: Finding
friendship and fun in the Fan Zone,
14. Til its done: The Legacy of the
2023 FIFA Womens World Cup through insights from Australian and German
Womens Football Fans
Danielle Sarver Coombs teaches advertising and branding at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. Her research interests center on politics, sports, and the politics of sport. She has authored and edited a number of books, including the Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom (Routledge, 2022). She is the vice-chair of the International Communication Associations Sport Communication Interest Group.
Molly Yanity is professor and director of the sports media and communication program at the University of Rhode Island, USA. A former sportswriter, Yanity also serves as a board member for the International Association for Communication and Sport.
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