Gender, gender equality and women's sport: Theories and practices

TY - CHAP

T1 - Gender, gender equality and women's sport

T2 - Theories and practices

AU - Pfister, Gertrud Ursula

N1 - CURIS 2016 NEXS 168

PY - 2016/5/20

Y1 - 2016/5/20

N2 - This chapter focuses on gender concepts and theories as well as the development and the situation of women. It explores long journey with gender theories as a starting point and current sport policies and practices as the goal. The chapter provides a short outline of theoretical approaches to gender. This will support an in-depth understanding of the opportunities and challenges which women face. The chapter deals with women and their sport related activities in Western countries. This focus implies that other important topics, Muslim females, in sport and exercise could not be covered. The chapter helps to locate the experiences and developments in the following Latin American chapters theoretically, and inspires others to explore these and other important topics in the field of gender and sport. The theoretical considerations which follow attempt to link some of the issues and strands of research stated above, placing particular emphasis on the dependence of gender on the cultural and societal contexts.

AB - This chapter focuses on gender concepts and theories as well as the development and the situation of women. It explores long journey with gender theories as a starting point and current sport policies and practices as the goal. The chapter provides a short outline of theoretical approaches to gender. This will support an in-depth understanding of the opportunities and challenges which women face. The chapter deals with women and their sport related activities in Western countries. This focus implies that other important topics, Muslim females, in sport and exercise could not be covered. The chapter helps to locate the experiences and developments in the following Latin American chapters theoretically, and inspires others to explore these and other important topics in the field of gender and sport. The theoretical considerations which follow attempt to link some of the issues and strands of research stated above, placing particular emphasis on the dependence of gender on the cultural and societal contexts.

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-1-138-83250-3

T3 - Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

SP - 32

EP - 54

BT - Women and Sport in Latin America

A2 - López de D'Amico, Rosa

A2 - Benn, Tansin

A2 - Pfister, Gertrud

PB - Routledge

CY - New York

ER -