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This ground breaking Research Handbook adeptly navigates how gender
and diversity are addressed in sport management. Offering insight
into practices and processes that work to exclude certain groups
and practices and favour others, it highlights how gendered ways of
organising sport are experienced and may be sustained, disrupted,
and challenged. Leading international scholars employ theoretical
frameworks to comprehensively set out how individuals or groups
engaged in leading and managing sport are situated in the social
world and engage in managerial practices. Providing a wealth of
conceptual analyses, the authors of the various chapters explore
diverse feminist theories, perspectives, and methodologies to
expertly examine gender-based marginalisation in sport management
at local and international levels. Expert contributors reveal how
women negotiate and navigate gender and intersecting identity
categories in sport organisations. Presenting a wide variety of
feminist perspectives on sport management, sport organisations, and
coaching, this Research Handbook will prove a valuable resource to
researchers and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the
fields of sport management and sport sociology. It will also be
essential reading for policymakers working in sport organisations.
Gender equality is one of the founding democratic principles of the
EU. However, recent studies of the Federation of Olympic Sports in
Europe have shown that women occupy only fourteen percent of
decision-making positions in sport organizations. This book
presents a comprehensive and comparative study of how various
regions and countries of Europe have addressed this lack of gender
diversity, discussing which strategies have brought about change
and to what extent these changes have been successful. With
contributions from leading sport sociologists, covering countries
such as Germany, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Spain, Turkey and the UK,
it provides a foundation for future policymaking, methodological
analyses and theoretical developments that can result in
sustainable gender equality in European sport governance. Gender
Diversity in European Sport Governance is important reading for
scholars and students in the fields of sociology of sport, sport
management, sociology, gender studies and studies of organization,
management and leadership. It is also a valuable resource for
policy makers in the EU, as well as national sport organizations
and activists.
Gender equality is one of the founding democratic principles of the
EU. However, recent studies of the Federation of Olympic Sports in
Europe have shown that women occupy only fourteen percent of
decision-making positions in sport organizations. This book
presents a comprehensive and comparative study of how various
regions and countries of Europe have addressed this lack of gender
diversity, discussing which strategies have brought about change
and to what extent these changes have been successful. With
contributions from leading sport sociologists, covering countries
such as Germany, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Spain, Turkey and the UK,
it provides a foundation for future policymaking, methodological
analyses and theoretical developments that can result in
sustainable gender equality in European sport governance. Gender
Diversity in European Sport Governance is important reading for
scholars and students in the fields of sociology of sport, sport
management, sociology, gender studies and studies of organization,
management and leadership. It is also a valuable resource for
policy makers in the EU, as well as national sport organizations
and activists.
Although a plethora of scholarship analyzes gender dynamics, this
book seeks to explore the paradoxes and taboos associated with
gendered meanings given to human bodies in action, or
"physicality." Physicality provides a particularly clear playing
space for developing concepts of gender identity, structures, and
cultural meanings. When people think about gender differences, they
often refer to those associated with physicality, such as giving
birth or playing contact sports. Helen M. Sterk and Annelies
Knoppers attend to the meanings and values given to human bodies in
motion that reflect cultural respect-or disrespect-for what is seen
as "womanly" in particular times and places. In doing so, they show
how these meanings can reinforce or challenge common ways of doing
gender that, at first glance, may not seem to be related to
physicality. Grappling with gender-based paradoxes and questioning
gendered taboos, two goals animate the book: to reveal how gender
continues to be enacted in ways that dehumanize women and men, and
to stimulate thinking and action toward a fuller realization of
human potential and partnership. Operating from an ethic of care,
in which all people are understood as being created equal, Sterk
and Knoppers argue that as long as women and all that is associated
with them are devalued, cultural practices will remain implicitly
gendered and humanity itself, reduced.
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