1st Edition

Women's Football in the UK Continuing with Gender Analyses

Edited By Jayne Caudwell Copyright 2012
    168 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book examines the complex ways in which girls and women experience football cultures in Britain. It extends current debate surrounding women and football (namely, how gender has functioned to shape women’s experiences of playing the game), by focusing on organisational, administrative and coaching practices, alongside the particular issues surrounding sexuality, ethnicity and disability (not only gender).

    The book analyses football and gender to reveal the subtle forms of discrimination that persist. It is important to highlight the many challenges and transformations made by girls and women but more importantly to consider the ways power continues to operate to devalue and undermine girls and women involved in the game. The UK-based authors make use of their recent research findings to offer critical debate on girls’ and women’s current experiences of British football cultures. Overall the book reveals the present day complexities of marginalisation and exclusion.

    This book was published as a special issue of Sport and Society.

    1. British Muslim Women’s Football Team (BMWFT): Discourses of Power Inequalities - Aisha Ahmad (University of Birmingham, UK)

    2. South Asian Women Spectators’ Views on Representation of the British Sikh Footballer in Bend it Like Beckham - Jayne Caudwell (University of Brighton, UK)

    3. Who wants to make aloo gobi when you can bend it like Beckham?’ British Asian Females and their Racialised Experiences of Gender and Identity in Women’s Football - Aarti Ratna (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)

    4. Girl footballers and feminine identity – Ruth Jeanes (Loughborough University, UK)

    5. Sexuality and Coaching - Leanne Norman (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)

    6. Women’s Work: Women in Voluntary Roles at Football Clubs and on Football Committees - Jo Welford (De Montford University, UK)

    7. "I don't think I can catch it": Women, Confidence and Responsibility in Football Coach Education - Beth Fielding-Lloyd (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) and Lindsey Mean (Arizona State University, USA)

    8. Constructing and Performing Gender in English Football Post 1993 - Kate Themen (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

    Biography

    Jayne Caudwell is Senior Lecturer in Sport Studies at the University of Brighton, UK. Her publications include Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory (also published by Routledge); and, as co-editor, Women, Football and Europe; Relocating the Leisure Society: Media, Consumption and Spaces, and Sport, Active Leisure and Youth Cultures.

    "This is the kind of work that is needed more than ever before, to account for the game's gender exclusions as well as its inclusions." Mark Perryman - Philosophy Football