Motherhood and Sport: Collective Stories of Identity and Difference

ISBN-13: 9780367691820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Lucy Spowart; Kerry R. McGannon

Opis

Although sport participation decreases on average for women once they become mothers, athletes have demonstrated that motherhood does not signal the end of sport engagement and athletic identities, or career roles. This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the nexus of women, sport and culture within the context of motherhood.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, Part I: Critical approaches to data analysis, 2. Phenomenological insights on motherhood and aquatic embodiment, 3. ‘Is training with your children a double-edged sword?’: Motherhood and martial arts, 4. Non-motherhood and motherhood in sport: Entangled relations of care, 5. Uncovering stories of motherhood and coaching with story completion, 6. Materializing risk in the pregnant athlete: Using material-semiotic tools to examine black-boxed and dis-qualified ‘facts’ in the IOC evidence summaries, Part II: Mediation, technology and digital methods, 7. Searching, surfing and seeking Paralympian mothers in social media spaces, 8. Beyond linear understandings of mothers’ sporting bodies: Digital self-tracking and spacetimemattering, 9. Using social media to explore elite athlete mothers and sponsorship: The potential of big data, Part III: Creative analytical approaches, 10. Pushing to the limits: A collaborative autoethnography of motherhood, disability, ambition and risk, 11. Mothers at the wall: Using creative nonfiction techniques to explore climbing and motherhood, 12. Getting back on the track: An ethnodrama of an elite mother runner’s journey, 13. Navigating legacies of athlete abuse in motherhood: Creative analytical practices as a tool for uncovering post-sport embodiment and practices, Part IV: Future directions, 14. Future directions for research into sport and motherhood.