Fast-girls, babes and the invisible girls. Gender relations in snowboarding

Sisjord, Mari Kristin

doi:10.1080/17430430903204801

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“…Displaying tomboy femininity in this context indicates, in other words, accepted presence. In Norwegian snowboarding, the so-called fast girls similarly experienced acceptance when 'having guts', speed and skills; in short, living up to appropriate behaviour according to male standards (Sisjord, 2009). This is equivalent to previous studies on male-dominated board sports, where women are accepted if they behave like the boys or the men (Thorpe, 2006).…”

Section: The Tomboy-reproductive or Resistant?mentioning

confidence: 64%

Gender Manoeuvring in Swedish Skateboarding: Negotiations of Femininities and the Hierarchical Gender Structure

Bäckström

2013

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The Nordic countries score high in gender equality ratings and we have a long tradition of working with feminist agendas promising liberal futures to both young women and men. Still, contemporary young women struggle to make room for female participation in male-dominated spaces. Based on ethnographic research, this article explores gender manoeuvring, that is, manipulations of the relationship between masculinity and femininity in the patterned beliefs and activities of Swedish skateboarding. The three most apparent femininities in the empirical material, 'the tomboy', 'the bitch', and 'the lesbian', are discussed and how they sometimes give rise to gender manoeuvring and sometimes not. I argue that the formation of a national network harnessing feminist strategies has been successful in making space for female skateboarding in local skateparks and the mainstream media. The negotiations these actions result in have the potential to transform the hierarchical gender order between and among masculinities and femininities. However, simultaneous tendencies to preserve the unequal gender structure through valuing both hegemonic masculinity and femininity become visible.

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Section: The Tomboy-reproductive or Resistant?mentioning

confidence: 64%

Gender Manoeuvring in Swedish Skateboarding: Negotiations of Femininities and the Hierarchical Gender Structure

Bäckström

2013

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“…Recent studies have examined women's participation in a variety of traditionally male-dominated activities including snowboarding (Thorpe 2005(Thorpe , 2012Sisjord 2009), the martial arts (Velija, Mierzwinski, and Fortune 2013), climbing (Dilley and Scraton 2010), windsurfing (Wheaton 2002), skateboarding (Abulhawa 2008;Bäckström 2013), motorcycling (Joans 2006;Roster 2007) and surfing Wilson 2012a, 2012b;Olive, McCuaig, and Phillips 2013). Leisure pursuits very much related to surfing, such as skateboarding and snowboarding claim growing space within the body of knowledge.…”

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confidence: 99%

Presenting phenomenology: faithfully recreating the lived experiences of Surfer Girls

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Annals of Leisure Research

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Phenomenology offers an appropriate philosophical orientation to investigate people's lived experiences. It is an approach that is now widely acknowledged and applied in the social sciences. Despite its increasing adaptation in diverse contexts, the use of phenomenology in leisure studies remains limited and presents many conceptual, theoretical and applied challenges to researchers. A significant challenge is presenting research findings in ways that faithfully present people's experiences. This paper provides reflexive insights into Laura's (the lead author's) attempts as a current Ph.D. candidate to embrace Heideggerian phenomenology to investigate the experiences of being a surfer. The paper is derived from Laura's thesis process, where she took part in 37 unstructured conversations with women surfers ('Surfer Girls'), and incorporated her own experiences as a woman surfer into the study. In her thesis, Laura presents her findings in the form of 'postcards' to promote women surfer's individuality, and to make their words come to life. Text, visual and other aids are incorporated in ways that enrich the written word, and that set a 'surfing scene' and create a surfing lifeworld for the reader. This paper examines and explains the importance of integrating phenomenological method and analysis to give faithful voice to people's lived experiences, and suggests tools for presenting phenomenological findings. Finally, this paper justifies and promotes the use of phenomenology as an under-utilized means of deepening our understandings of people's leisure experiences.

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“…In order to conform, the serious participant must opt into the group identity in order to establish membership. Cultural characteristics therefore become tangible as a reflection of subcultural values and embody the sport’s identity narratives (Heino, 2000; Donnelly, 2006) and in particular their masculinised nature (Anderson, 1999; Sisjord, 2009; Thorpe, 2010; Huybers-Withers and Livingston, 2010; Huybers-Withers, 2015). The question here, therefore, centers on the how identities are depicted and promoted to participants through advertising materials related to mountain biking products.…”

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Differentiating Identities Within an Extreme Sport: A Case Study of Mountain Biking Print Advertisements

2018

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The work of McEwan (2016) has questioned the assumed homogeneity of mountain biking in terms of culture and sporting values, leading to the suggestion that there may be differing patterns of identity within the various formats of the sport. This is also supported by McEwan and Weston (2017) findings, which advanced knowledge of the mountain biking industry by defining the differing pluralized segments within the market and highlighting their hierarchical nature in relation to the cost of products. This therefore leads to a question over whether differing markets are reflected in differing identities among varying consumer groups within the sport of mountain biking. Thus, this study sought to establish what these identity characteristics are through an analysis of a sample of mountain biking magazine advertisements (N = 568). The analysis was conducted using a sequential Ethnographic Content Analysis (Altheide, 1987) followed by a Quantitative Content Analysis (Berelson, 1952) mirroring the approaches used by Williams et al. (2010) and Cann (2012) in their studies of the portrayal of identity within magazine advertisements. Results of this analysis highlighted five identity characteristics (places of play, equipment functionality, risk taking, competitiveness, activity aesthetics), three of which varied significantly between differing formats of mountain biking (risk taking, competitiveness, activity aesthetics). Activity aesthetic was established as a component of risk-taking rather than an independent identity characteristic and therefore risk taking along with competitiveness formed the basis of a refined four-format activity categorization within mountain biking and the production of a model of participant archetypes.

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Fast-girls, babes and the invisible girls. Gender relations in snowboarding

Cited by 25 publications

References 22 publications

Gender Manoeuvring in Swedish Skateboarding: Negotiations of Femininities and the Hierarchical Gender Structure

Gender Manoeuvring in Swedish Skateboarding: Negotiations of Femininities and the Hierarchical Gender Structure

Presenting phenomenology: faithfully recreating the lived experiences of Surfer Girls

Differentiating Identities Within an Extreme Sport: A Case Study of Mountain Biking Print Advertisements

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