Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management (International Handbooks on Gender series)

This groundbreaking Research Handbook adeptly navigates how gender and diversity are addressed in sport management. Offering insight into practices and processes that work to exclude certain groups and practices, and favour others, it highlights how gendered ways of organizing sport are experienced and may be sustained, disrupted, and challenged. Leading international scholars employ theoretical frameworks to comprehensively set out how individuals or groups engaged in leading and managing sport are situated in the social world and engage in managerial practices. Providing a wealth of conceptual analyses, the authors of the various chapters explore diverse feminist theories, perspectives, and methodologies to expertly examine gender-based marginalization in sport management at local and international levels. Expert contributors reveal how women negotiate and navigate gender and intersecting identity categories in sport organizations. Presenting a wide variety of feminist perspectives on sport management, sport organizations, and coaching, this Research Handbook will prove a valuable resource to researchers and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of sport management and sport sociology. It will also be essential reading for policy makers working in sport organizations. Front Matter Copyright Contents Figures Tables Contributors Preface Introduction: why a Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management PART I ACCESSING POSITIONS OF LEADERSHIP IN GLOBAL SPORT 1. A decade of tracking women’s participation in the governance of international sport federations 2. Gender representation and policy implementation in the governance of international Paralympic organizations 3. Gender, leadership, and (dis)ability 4. Gender and diversity in mediated sport marketing: using “old” and “new” media 5. Doing gender in the neoliberal, global context of sport management PART II NAVIGATING AND NEGOTIATING SPORT ORGANIZATIONS: CENTERING INTERSECTIONALITY 6. Managing gendered sport organizations 7. The “motherhood penalty” and sport leadership 8. The gendered organization of men’s professional sport 9. Institutional heteronormativity in Dutch sport clubs 10. Heteronormativity and gender-based violence in Sport for Development PART III NAVIGATING AND NEGOTIATING SPORT ORGANIZATIONS: CENTERING COACHING 11. Occupational hazards: harassment and women’s work as sport coaches 12. The socially reproductive labor of women sport coaches 13. Refuting gender essentialism about women in sport coaching 14. Gender, women, and community sport coaching 15. Elite coaching, gender, and diversity PART IV CHANGING PRACTICES IN MANAGING SPORT 16. Influencers for change: women leading in the outdoor sector 17. Gender inclusive sport: what’s in it for (all) women? 18. Balancing inclusion, fairness, and binaries in transgender eligibility sport policies 19. Gender and voluntary work for diverse and traditionally marginalized identities in community sport organizations 20. Re-imagining mothers exercising leadership in sport management 21. Sexualization and gendered empowerment in a Sport for Development organization in Brazil PART V THEORIZING GENDER AND DIVERSITY IN SPORT MANAGEMENT 22. Process-figurational sociology and gender relations in sport management 23. Bourdieu on the field: gender, power and the organization of sport 24. Critical feminisms in sport management: theory and practice 25. Critical discourse analysis, gender, and sport management 26. Poststructuralist feminist approaches in sport management research 27. Phenomenological perspectives for sport management research 28. Feminist new materialist insights for sport management Conclusion: directions for future research Index