TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Ladies present!’
T2 - an auto/ethnographic study of women amateur golfers at an English provincial golf club
AU - Mitchell, Stacey
AU - Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
AU - Evans, Adam Brian
PY - 2016/5/26
Y1 - 2016/5/26
N2 - Despite high general participation rates in golf in England and a raft of initiatives to encourage more women and younger players into golf, fewer than one in five amateur golfers in England is female and there is a real dearth of young women entering the sport. Sexist policies and practices have been posited as possible barriers to women’s and girls’ grass-roots participation in golf, but to date little qualitative research has been undertaken on the lived experiences of recreational women players themselves. To address this considerable gap, an 18-month ethnographic and autoethnographic research project was undertaken within a case study club in the English East Midlands. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with thirteen amateur women-players, ethnographic observations, detailed autoethnographic field notes and video auto-reflections, this article explores some of the key themes that emerged from the research, utilising primarily Foucauldian-feminist theoretical perspectives to frame the qualitative findings. The two key themes selected for analysis here are: (1) women’s lived experience of corporeal surveillance in golfing contexts; and: (2) discursive othering and objectification of women in golf.
AB - Despite high general participation rates in golf in England and a raft of initiatives to encourage more women and younger players into golf, fewer than one in five amateur golfers in England is female and there is a real dearth of young women entering the sport. Sexist policies and practices have been posited as possible barriers to women’s and girls’ grass-roots participation in golf, but to date little qualitative research has been undertaken on the lived experiences of recreational women players themselves. To address this considerable gap, an 18-month ethnographic and autoethnographic research project was undertaken within a case study club in the English East Midlands. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with thirteen amateur women-players, ethnographic observations, detailed autoethnographic field notes and video auto-reflections, this article explores some of the key themes that emerged from the research, utilising primarily Foucauldian-feminist theoretical perspectives to frame the qualitative findings. The two key themes selected for analysis here are: (1) women’s lived experience of corporeal surveillance in golfing contexts; and: (2) discursive othering and objectification of women in golf.
U2 - 10.1080/2159676X.2016.1140674
DO - 10.1080/2159676X.2016.1140674
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2159-676X
VL - 8
SP - 273
EP - 286
JO - Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health
JF - Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health
IS - 3
ER -