This volume brings together 13 essays by sports, sociology, and other researchers from Europe, Oceania, and the US, who examine sport mega-events as a key factor in gender and identity. They explore the core issues involved in gender, sports, and mega-events, including sex testing and the treatment of female and male athletes in the media and how women are held to different standards of accountability; masculine norms and standards in these events, including the increasing openness of male athletes in discussing mental health issues, violence and hooliganism in men's soccer, and images of masculinity and femininity in Formula 1 racing; how mega-events can become sites of change, with discussion of the self-representation of US national soccer player, Megan Rapinoe during the FIFA Women's World Cup 2019, gender disorder in the 2014 FIFA Men's World Cup in Brazil, and fan experiences in the 2018 FIFA Men's World Cup in Russia; and how sport mega-events provide an opportunity for progress in terms of representation, participation, and gender equality, particularly in women's soccer in Spain, media representations and national identity in the Solheim Cup for womens golf, and media coverage of female sports and athletes. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This volume unpicks mega-events as gendered entities and showcases how they both position athletes in relation to one of two binary sex positions and also push the boundaries of what we see and accept as a recognisably gendered male or female body.
Sport mega-events are more than just large-scale gatherings and celebrations of human athletic achievement; they are also arenas through which groups and individuals perform, reinforce, challenge and disrupt identities, power and status. Understanding that sport is widely recognised as a practice through which normative ideas of gender are both reinforced and challenged, this book explores how this is magnified in the context of sport mega-events with their associated global media attention, elite performance, and social and cultural relevance.
As sport mega-events become ever more prominent in popular culture, and are used by governments as tools to stimulate national and regional development, critical analysis of the gendered aspects of mega-events is increasingly important. Featuring a range of mega-event case studies and conceptual discussions, Sport, Gender and Mega-Events shows the significance of mega-events to wider sporting practices, and considers how these highly mediatised global phenomena both reflect and help shape broader ideas about gender, sex and identity in and beyond sport.
Demonstrating how mega-events represent an important context through which to explore questions related to sex, gender and identity, Dashpers exquisitely collated chapters unpick mega-events as gendered entities and showcase how they both position athletes in relation to one of two binary sex positions male or female and also push the boundaries of what we see and accept as recognisably gendered male or female bodies and identities.
Sport mega-events are more than just large-scale gatherings and celebrations of human athletic achievement; they are also arenas through which groups and individuals perform, reinforce, challenge and disrupt identities, power and status. Understanding that sport is widely recognised as a practice through which normative ideas of gender are both reinforced and challenged, this book explores how this is magnified in the context of sport mega-events with their associated global media attention, elite performance, and social and cultural relevance. As sport mega-events become ever more prominent in popular culture, and are used by governments as tools to stimulate national and regional development, critical analysis of the gendered aspects of mega-events is increasingly important. Featuring a range of mega-event case studies and conceptual discussions, Sport, Gender and Mega-Events shows the significance of mega-events to wider sporting practices, and considers how these highly mediatised global phenomena both reflect and help shape broader ideas about gender, sex and identity in and beyond sport. Demonstrating how mega-events represent an important context through which to explore questions related to sex, gender and identity, Dashpers exquisitely collated chapters unpick mega-events as gendered entities and showcase how they both position athletes in relation to one of two binary sex positions male or female and also push the boundaries of what we see and accept as recognisably gendered male or female bodies and identities.
