Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding Into a Man's World

ISBN-13: 9781137590244 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 319 str.

Gertrud Pfister; Stacey Pope

Opis

Providing in-depth analysis of the development of the women's game in different European countries, it examines both the experiences of female fans of men's football and women's views, perceptions and evaluations of women's football.

Recenzje

"The book provides insight into the complex network of gendered experiences that can be part of playing and spectating football. ... Female Football Players and Fans there for is an important contribution to increasing the knowledge and raising awareness of women's football, and perhaps encouraging people to question their own preconceptions and understandings of this sport." (Lise Joern, idrottsforum.org, September, 2018)

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Stacey Pope and Gertrud Pfister

Section 1: Women’s Football and Female Players

2. It’s Still a Man’s Game? The Experiences of Top-Level European Women Footballers; Sheila Scraton, Kari Fasting, Gertrud Pfister and Ana Bunuel

3. Women, Football and European Integration: Aims, Questions, Methodological and Theoretical Approaches; Gertrud Pfister

4. The Beginnings of Women’s Football in South-Western Germany: From a Spectacle to a Sport Event; Markwart Herzog

5. Women’s Football Leagues in Europe – Organizational and Economic Perspectives; Marie-Luise Klein

6. Outsiders on the Inside: Integrating Women’s and Men’s Football Clubs in England; Jo Welford

7. ‘Who Could Name an England Women’s Footballer?’: Female Fans of Men’s Football and their Views of Women’s Football in England; Stacey Pope

Section 2: Female Football Fans and their Experiences

8. A Socio-Historical Account of Female Experiences of Football’s Golden Age in England; Stacey Pope and John Williams

9. Is there a Life beyond Football? How Female Fans Integrate Football into their Everyday Lives; Verena Lenneis, Gertrud Pfister and Svenja-Maria Mintert

10. ‘One is not Born, but Rather Becomes, a Fan’: The Socialization of Female Football Fans – A Case Study in Denmark; Gertrud Pfister, Svenja-Maria Mintert and Verena Lenneis

11. Women’s Football Supporter Culture in Sweden; Aage Radmann and Susanna Hedenborg 

12. Challenging or Accommodating the Football System? A Case Study of Female Football Supporter Communities in Spain; Ramón Llopis-Goig and Helena Flores

13. Gender, Play and Identity: A Longitudinal Study of Structure and Agency in Female Football Fandom; Cornel Sandvoss and Emily Ball.

O autorze

Gertrud Pfister is Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the author and editor of 17 books and more than 250 articles.  Her main research interest is in gender and sport.

Stacey Pope is Associate Professor at Durham University, UK. Her research interests include gender and sport, sports fandom and the sociology of football and rugby union.

Blurb

This edited collection draws on social science approaches to provide insights into the world of women’s football and female fans. Providing in-depth analysis of the development of the women’s game in different European countries, it examines both the experiences of female fans of men’s football and women’s views, perceptions and evaluations of women’s football.

Female Football Players and Fans will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields, including sports sociology, sport sciences, gender studies, women’s studies and fandom and cultural studies.