From Women's Exclusion to Gender Institution: A Brief History of the Sexual Categorisation Process within Sport

Férez, Sylvain

doi:10.1080/09523367.2012.641221

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“…Such gendered aesthetic descriptions (e.g. beautiful, elegant, lovely, fabulous, soft) make gendered aesthetics relevant without discussing bodies directly (Ferez, 2012; Shugart, 2003).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Stereotyping by omission and commission: Creating distinctive gendered spectacles in the televised coverage of the 2015 Australian Open men’s and women’s tennis singles semi-finals and finals

Quayle

Wurm²,

Barnes³

et al. 2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This paper explores the way in which announcers created spectacle in the Eurosport coverage of the men's and women's tennis singles semifinals and finals at the Australian Open 2015. This was an event where gender representations were under global social media scrutiny after two female players were asked to 'twirl' for the audience. We used a two-phase thematic analysis. Semantic thematic analysis showed that more personal descriptions were directed at women than men and these often described off-court features. Descriptions of men included detailed and specific portrayals of physical characteristics, while women's bodies were seldom referred to specifically. Discourse analysis showed that men's games were spoken of as physical clashes between titans. In contrast, women's matches were described in aesthetic rather than physical terms and 'divalike' personalities and relationships were important features of women's game narratives. While male bodies were described in specific detail where relevant to technical features of the game, women's bodies were only described indirectly and non-specifically. For the women's game, this dialogical repression of specific body talk in combination with a strong focus on aesthetic judgements invoked stereotypes by omission, simultaneously reinscribing gender stereotypes and

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“…Such gendered aesthetic descriptions (e.g. beautiful, elegant, lovely, fabulous, soft) make gendered aesthetics relevant without discussing bodies directly (Ferez, 2012; Shugart, 2003).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stereotyping by omission and commission: Creating distinctive gendered spectacles in the televised coverage of the 2015 Australian Open men’s and women’s tennis singles semi-finals and finals

Quayle

Wurm²,

Barnes³

et al. 2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Women have historically been structurally excluded from organized sport, establishing it as a breeding ground for macho behaviours (Ferez, 2012; Theberge, 1985). Boys were the main focal point of organized sport during the second industrial revolution, with sport promoting hyper-masculinity and male dominance in society (Riess, 1991).…”

Section: Sport Segregation As Social Exclusionmentioning

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Gender-collaborative training in elite university sport: Challenging gender essentialism through integrated training in gender-segregated sports

Ogilvie

McCormack

2020

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Competitive teamsport at university level is predominantly segregated by gender in many western countries, despite concerns that gender segregation in sport can perpetuate sexism and gender inequality. While policies and activities seek to challenge sexism and gender inequality, the use of gender collaboration within a gender-segregated system as a method to achieve this has received little attention. In this article, we draw on a year-long ethnography of elite sport and 48 in-depth interviews with elite male and female athletes at a British university to explore the impact of various forms of gender mixing during training, which we call ‘gender-collaborative training’. While men’s and women’s teams competing against each other in practice matches resulted in gender-essentialist narratives attributing difference to biology, gender-integrated practices and workouts provided opportunities for men and women to train together without the gendered sport-specific associations that can reproduce sexism. We call for gender-collaborative training to be adopted by gender-segregated teams, and suggest that where there is resistance to any integration, teams start with mixed physical workouts and progress to mixed sport-specific training and then mixed competitive training.

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“…(GOELLNER, 2007, p. 173-174) Esta escolha, entretanto, representou também a necessidade de se buscar outras fontes que não somente as oficiais. Afinal, se o mundo público foi tradicionalmente um espaço masculino e se o esporte moderno se constituiu como um espaço de formação e promoção da virilidade (BOURDIEU, 2019;ELIAS, 1992;FEREZ, 2012; VIGARELLO, 2013), as fontes oficiais, provavelmente, pouco diriam sobre as mulheres. Assim, observa-se nestas pesquisas a utilização especialmente de periódicos, tanto específicos da área de educação física e esporte, como jornais de grande circulação, que têm permitido compreender as diferentes representações sobre mulheres 8 PERROT, Michelle.…”

Section: Uma Primeira Expressão: As "Histórias Das Mulheres"unclassified

Gênero e Sexualidade: Perspectivas para a história do esporte

Silveira

Quitzau

2019

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From Women's Exclusion to Gender Institution: A Brief History of the Sexual Categorisation Process within Sport

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

Stereotyping by omission and commission: Creating distinctive gendered spectacles in the televised coverage of the 2015 Australian Open men’s and women’s tennis singles semi-finals and finals

Stereotyping by omission and commission: Creating distinctive gendered spectacles in the televised coverage of the 2015 Australian Open men’s and women’s tennis singles semi-finals and finals

Gender-collaborative training in elite university sport: Challenging gender essentialism through integrated training in gender-segregated sports

Gênero e Sexualidade: Perspectivas para a história do esporte

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