Women in Action Sport Cultures: Identity, Politics and Experience (Global Culture and Sport Series)

"Young, white men have dominated action sports for many years, yet women have refused to accept positions on the margins of these unique sporting cultures. Developing in a different context to many traditional sports, girls and women have adopted highly proactive approaches and developed unique strategies to negotiate space alongside their male peers in the waves, skate parks and cityscapes, on mountains and climbing walls, along trails, as well as around rinks. This international collection features contributions from a group of leading and emerging researchers, many of whom are passionate action sport participants themselves. With authors representing a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives including cultural studies, sociology, performance studies, media studies, sport for development, and education, this book offers the first collective focus on women in action sports cultures in the past, present and into the future. Ultimately, the book offers a vivid and powerful illustration of the new and ongoing struggles facing women in contemporary sporting cultures, as well as the various strands of activism, agency and politics being performed in the surf, on the slopes, and at the crag. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of sociology of sport and physical culture, gender studies, youth cultures, sport history, and pedagogy and education."--Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Introduction: Contextualizing Women in Action Sport Cultures....Pages 1-20 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Looking Back, Moving Forward? Reflections from Early Action Sport Researchers....Pages 23-44 Surfing Together: Exploring the Potential of a Collaborative Ethnographic Moment....Pages 45-68 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 Sporting Gender Relations, Life Course Transitions and Implications for Women Rock Climbers....Pages 71-89 ‘Don’t Be a Douche’: An Introduction to Sex-Integrated Roller Derby....Pages 91-109 Parkour, Gendered Power and the Politics of Identity....Pages 111-132 The ‘Girl Effect’ in Action Sports for Development: The Case of the Female Practitioners of Skateistan....Pages 133-152 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 Negotiating Moral Terrain: Snowboarding Mothers....Pages 155-174 ‘No One Wants to Mess with an Angry Mom’: Females’ Negotiation of Power Technologies Within a Local Skateboarding Culture....Pages 175-191 Coming Together and Paddling Out: Lesbian Identities and British Surfing Spaces....Pages 193-211 The Experiences of ‘Brown’ Female Bodyboarders: Negotiating Multiple Axes of Marginality....Pages 213-233 Front Matter....Pages 235-235 Technology, Equipment and the Mountain Biker’s Taskscape....Pages 237-258 The Changing Face of Ultimate Frisbee and the Politics of Inclusion....Pages 259-278 Girl Power Figures, Mythic Amazons, and Neoliberal Risk Performers: Discursively Situating Women Who Participate in Mixed Martial Arts....Pages 279-298 Front Matter....Pages 299-299 Carving Out Space in the Action Sports Media Landscape: The Skirtboarders’ Blog as a ‘Skatefeminist’ Project....Pages 301-318 Becoming Visible: Visual Narratives of ‘Female’ as a Political Position in Surfing: The History, Perpetuation, and Disruption of Patriocolonial Pedagogies?....Pages 319-347 Cultural Pedagogies—Action Sports....Pages 349-367 Afterword....Pages 369-376 Back Matter....Pages 377-387