Athletic Intruders

Description

Informed by feminism and the fields of anthropology and sociology of sport, this anthology investigates women's place in sport and exercise from a sociocultural perspective, documenting women's struggle into the sports arenas of male hegemony. The nine ethnographic case studies explore issues of identity, embodiment, and meaning in various sports and exercise, including triathlons, aerobics, basketball, bodybuilding, weightlifting, motorcycle riding, softball, casual exercise, and rugby.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG

1. Reflexive Ethnography, Women, and Sporting Activities
ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG

2. Just "Tri" and "Du" It: The Variable Impact of Female Involvement in the Triathlon/Duathlon Sport Culture
JANE GRANSKOG

3. Postmodern Aerobics: Contradiction and Resistance
PIRKKO MARKULA

4. Cultural Expressions of African American Female Athletes in Intercollegiate Sport
TERESE M. PERETTO STRATTA

5. Beauty or the Beast: The Subversive Soma
ANNE BOLIN

6. A Woman's Place is in the . . . Cardiovascular Room?? Gender Relations, the Body, and the Gym
SHARI L. DWORKIN

7. Women Who Ride: The Bitch in the Back is Dead
BARBARA JOANS

8. "I Was There . . .": Gendered Limitations, Expectations, and Strategic Assumptions in the World of Co-ed Softball
FAYE LINDA WACHS

9. Changing Body Aesthetics: Diet and Exercise Fads in a Newfoundland Outport Community
DONA DAVIS

10. Kicking Stereotypes into Touch: An Ethnographic Account of Women's Rugby
P. DAVID HOWE

AFTERWORD
Pastimes and Presentimes: Theoretical Issues in Research on Women in Action
ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG

List of Contributors

Index

Listing of Books in Series

Sujets

• Sport
• Autres sports

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780791487563
• Langue: English

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ATHLETIC INTRUDERS

SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations CL Cole and Michael A. Messner, Editors

ATHLETIC INTRUDERS

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Ethnographic Research on Women, Culture, and Exercise

edited by

A N N E B O L I N A N D J A N E G R A N S K O G

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Athletic intruders : Ethnographic research on women, culture, and exercise / Anne Bolin and Jane Granskog, editors. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0791455831 (hard : alk. paper) — ISBN 079145584X (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Physical education for women—Social aspects. 2. Sports for women—Social aspects. 3. Body image in women—Social aspects. 4. Feminist theory. I. Bolin, Anne. II. Granskog, Jane.

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This book is dedicated to my mother, Vivian Bolin, whom I continue to miss more than I ever imagined. —Anne Bolin

This book is also dedicated to both my parents, E. Wal fred and Dorothy Granskog, whose emphasis on the value of education and being of service to others have provided the fundamental core in my own striving to be the best I can be. —Jane Granskog

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Introduction1 ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG

C H A P T E R O N E 7 Reflexive Ethnography, Women, and Sporting Activities ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG

C H A P T E R T W O 27 Just “Tri” and “Du” It: The Variable Impact of Female Involvement in the Triathlon/Duathlon Sport Culture JANE GRANSKOG

C H A P T E R T H R E E 53 Postmodern Aerobics: Contradiction and Resistance PIRKKO MARKULA

C H A P T E R F O U R 79 Cultural Expressions of African American Female Athletes in Intercollegiate Sport TERESE M. PERETTO STRATTA

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C H A P T E R F I V E 107 Beauty or the Beast: The Subversive Soma ANNE BOLIN

C H A P T E R S I X 131 A Woman’s Place is in the . . . Cardiovascular Room?? Gender Relations, the Body, and the Gym SHARI L. DWORKIN

C H A P T E R S E V E N 159 Women Who Ride: The Bitch in the Back is Dead BARBARA JOANS

C H A P T E R E I G H T 177 “I Was There . . .”: Gendered Limitations, Expectations, and Strategic Assumptions in the World of Coed Softball FAYE LINDA WACHS

C H A P T E R N I N E 201 Changing Body Aesthetics: Diet and Exercise Fads in a Newfoundland Outport Community DONA DAVIS

C H A P T E R T E N 227 Kicking Stereotypes into Touch: An Ethnographic Account of Women’s Rugby P. DAVID HOWE

A F T E R W O R D 247 Pastimes and Presentimes: Theoretical Issues in Research on Women in Action ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG

List of Contributors261

Index265

Listing of Books in Series

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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

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We owe a great debt to those who have laid the groundwork for the study of the ethnography of sport and exercise. Most notable is Alan Klein, who may be credited with bringing to academic attention the field of sport ethnography through his own exemplary work and through his efforts in supporting scholars such as ourselves who conduct ethno graphic studies of sports. Alan has inspired and supported us in count less ways. It was Alan who first brought us into the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS), where our ethnographic penchant for sport was nurtured. This edited collection began as a NASSS symposium and we want to extend our appreciation to our col leagues in that organization, especially those who have made it possible for us to do feminist sport ethnography. We are also grateful to CL Cole and Michael Messner for their edi torial expertise and insight in the shaping of this volume. Their acumen and vision played an important role in the direction of this manuscript. Linda Martindale gave life to this book through her tireless efforts in manuscript preparation, formatting, rereading and editing. In addi tion, Linda is pure magic in the coordination and attention to detail so important in an edited volume. We want to also thank our respective departments for providing an encouraging atmosphere in which to work: the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Elon University and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at California State University at Bakersfield. Finally, we would each like to offer a word of personal thanks. Anne Bolin would like to thank her spouse Greg Babcock for support ing and loving her always. Greg suggested that she seePumping Iron II: The Women,a movie about women bodybuilders. This captured her

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