Shifting, crossing and transforming gender boundaries in physical cultures

Barker-Ruchti, Natalie; Grahn, Karin; Lindgren, Eva-Carin

doi:10.1080/17430437.2015.1073942

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“…As such, the primary analysis relates to the children’s perspective (Thulin & Jonsson, 2014). Adhering to the child perspective (Thulin & Jonsson, 2014), the secondary (deductive) analysis (i.e., a theoretical analysis) was done using a gender perspective (Barker-Ruchti, Grahn, & Lindgren, 2016; Lamont & Molnár, 2002). The following four steps were performed in the qualitative content analysis.

At an initial stage, the interviews were transcribed verbatim, and the transcriptions were read through several times in order to “obtain a sense of the whole” (Graneheim & Lundman, 2004, p. 108) and to gain an overall understanding of the adolescents’ perspectives about undermining factors.

In order to go deeper into details and to identify similarities and differences in the empirical data, a back-and-forth process between decontextualization and contextualization was performed.

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What undermines healthy habits with regard to physical activity and food? Voices of adolescents in a disadvantaged community

Jonsson

Larsson

Berg

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International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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This study aimed to illuminate factors that undermine the healthy habits of adolescents from a multicultural community with low socioeconomic status (S.E.S.) in Sweden with regard to physical activity (P.A.) and food, as stated in their own voices. Adolescents (n = 53, 12–13 y/o) were recruited from one school situated in a multicultural community characterized by low S.E.S. Embracing an interpretive approach, 10 focus-group interviews were conducted to produce data for the study. The focus-group interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analysed using qualitative content analysis. The analysis resulted in two major themes: (1) the availability of temptations is large, and support from the surroundings is limited; and (2) norms and demands set the agenda. The adolescents’ voices illuminate a profound awareness and the magnitude of tempting screen-based activities as undermining their P.A. and healthy food habits. Moreover, several gender boundaries were highlighted as undermining girls’ P.A. and healthy food habits. The adolescents’ stories illuminated that it is difficult for them, within their environment, to establish healthy habits with regard to P.A. and food. To facilitate the adolescents’ healthy habits, we suggest that support from family, friends, the school, and society at large is essential.

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In order to go deeper into details and to identify similarities and differences in the empirical data, a back-and-forth process between decontextualization and contextualization was performed.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What undermines healthy habits with regard to physical activity and food? Voices of adolescents in a disadvantaged community

Jonsson

Larsson

Berg

et al. 2017

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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“…The theory of 'gender boundaries', which can be shifted, crossed, and transformed, is useful for analysing the rise of € Oxab€ ack as the first established women's football team in Sweden. 16 The women of € Oxab€ ack managed to challenge established ideas about football and femininity through conscious and time-consuming work to persuade the Swedish Football Association to support the new women's football league. In the process of establishing women's football, it was important to legitimize this novelty through aspects of 'sportification'.…”

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“…The ideas about football as a male sport constituted a symbolic boundary, a way to categorize male and female athletes according to established gender dichotomies. 39 Internationally, it was seen as unsuitable for women to play football, for many reasons. Partly from a paternalistic perspective, women should be protected from the dangers of the physical game.…”

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“…Such shifts have been framed as a sign of a 'boundary losing its strength or salience'. 58 Throughout the twentieth century, the idea of female athletes became more accepted and thus crossing and transforming gender boundaries was eventually possible. There are many examples of this from different sports, including the transformation of equestrianism from an activity gender-coded as male to something more diverse and with a stronger emphasis on femininity.…”

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Equalize It!: ‘Sportification’ and the Transformation of Gender Boundaries in Emerging Swedish Women’s Football, 1966–1999

Svensson

Oppenheim

2018

The International Journal of the History of Sport

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This paper discusses the emergence of Swedish women's football through the case of pioneering team € Oxab€ acks IF, from a rural village of about 900 inhabitants. From the start in 1966 until the dissolving of the team due to financial problems in 1999, € Oxab€ ack was one of the top Swedish football clubs. They won seven Swedish Championships and six Swedish Cups, and played an important role in advancing national and international women's football through exhibition matches and tours. How was this possible in a small rural village? We will analyze the strategies used by the € Oxab€ ack players to convince the Swedish Football Association, the press, and the public that their ambition to play football was serious and should be supported. What aspects of sportification did they try to achieve, as Swedish women's football went through a rapid sportification process in the late 1960s and early 1970s? We argue that concepts related to sportification, such as rational training and organization, were used to further the cause of women's football. The experiences from the € Oxab€ ack case are important to shed light on similar processes in currently emerging sports today.

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“…They can adapt themselves to this masculinity orthodoxy, denying themselves, or they can give up sport, looking for other less hostile activities with their true masculine identity. Fortunately, there is a third group of boys who decide to cross boundaries from the established patriarchal system, showing publicly their heterodox masculinity or looking for sport practises that do not match their gender (Barker-Ruchti, Grahn, & Lindgren, 2016). This is the case of boys who decide to practise rhythmic gymnastics since this is one of the few sports that tradition has kept for women in an exclusive way, Burstyn (1999) regards them as hyperfeminine.…”

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Masculinity and Rhythmic Gymnastics. An Exploration on the Transgression of Gender Order in Sport

Piedra

2017

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Patriarchal dominance in our Western society has oppressed not only women but it has also isolated many men who did not comply with hegemonic masculinity patterns. The aim of this study is to know and analyse the experiences of a group of boys who practise rhythmic gymnastics, traditionally linked to the feminine reality. Within this interpretative paradigm, eight interviews has been done to gymnasts (8-19 years old), who practise rhythmic gymnastics in a competitive or amateur level. The boys express the familiar support that they have had when deciding to practise a traditionally feminine sport. However, many gymnasts have been insulted or mocked by other boys. Therefore, it is important to work with families in order to eliminate stereotypes and prejudices in this masculine discipline in the future. Similarly, rhythmic gymnastics must be promoted among boys, since a higher presence of boys in clubs would ease their reception among girls.

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Shifting, crossing and transforming gender boundaries in physical cultures

Cited by 16 publications

References 61 publications

What undermines healthy habits with regard to physical activity and food? Voices of adolescents in a disadvantaged community

What undermines healthy habits with regard to physical activity and food? Voices of adolescents in a disadvantaged community

Equalize It!: ‘Sportification’ and the Transformation of Gender Boundaries in Emerging Swedish Women’s Football, 1966–1999

Masculinity and Rhythmic Gymnastics. An Exploration on the Transgression of Gender Order in Sport

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