Olive, Rebecca
Women in Action Sport Cultures
1. Introduction: Contextualizing Women in Action Sport Cultures
Holly Thorpe, Rebecca Olive
Part I. Researching Gender in Action Sport Cultures
2. Looking Back, Moving Forward? Reflections from Early Action Sport Researchers
Holly Thorpe, Rebecca Olive, Becky Beal, Douglas Booth, Jason Laurendeau, Catherine Palmer, Robert E. Rinehart, Belinda Wheaton
3. Surfing Together: Exploring the Potential of a Collaborative Ethnographic Moment
Rebecca Olive, Holly Thorpe, Georgina Roy, Mihi Nemani, lisahunter, Belinda Wheaton, Barbara Humberstone
Part II. Gender Relations and Negotiations
4. Sporting Gender Relations, Life Course Transitions and Implications for Women Rock Climbers
Victoria Robinson
5. ‘Don’t Be a Douche’: An Introduction to Sex-Integrated Roller Derby
Adele Pavlidis, James Connor
6. Parkour, Gendered Power and the Politics of Identity
Belinda Wheaton
7. The ‘Girl Effect’ in Action Sports for Development: The Case of the Female Practitioners of Skateistan
Holly Thorpe, Megan Chawansky
Part III. Female Action Sport Identities and Lived Experiences
8. Negotiating Moral Terrain: Snowboarding Mothers
Lucy Spowart, Lisette Burrows
9. ‘No One Wants to Mess with an Angry Mom’: Females’ Negotiation of Power Technologies Within a Local Skateboarding Culture
Matthew Atencio, Becky Beal, ZaNean McClain, Missy Wright
10.
Georgina Roy
11. The Experiences of ‘Brown’ Female Bodyboarders: Negotiating Multiple Axes of Marginality
Mihi Nemani, Holly Thorpe
Part IV. Action Sports in Transition: Consumption, Technology, Risk and Desire
12. Technology, Equipment and the Mountain Biker’s Taskscape
Kath Bicknell
13. The Changing Face of Ultimate Frisbee and the Politics of Inclusion
Hamish Crocket
14. Girl Power Figures, Mythic Amazons, and Neoliberal Risk Performers: Discursively Situating Women Who Participate in Mixed Martial Arts
Riley Chisholm, Charlene Weaving, Kathy Bischoping
Part V. Media, Politics and Pedagogies
15. Carving Out Space in the Action Sports Media Landscape: The Skirtboarders’ Blog as a ‘Skatefeminist’ Project
Steph MacKay
16. Becoming Visible: Visual Narratives of ‘Female’ as a Political Position in Surfing: The History, Perpetuation, and Disruption of Patriocolonial Pedagogies?
lisahunter
17. Cultural Pedagogies—Action Sports
Synthia Sydnor
18. Afterword
Simone Fullagar
Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Gender Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality
- Editor
- Olive, Rebecca
- Thorpe, Holly
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Global Culture and Sport Series
- Page amount
- 21 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137457974
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-45796-7