Women's Football in the UK

Continuing with Gender Analyses

Jayne Caudwell, Jayne Caudwell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781317966227
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Sciences sociales
• Subtopic: Féminisme et théorie féministe

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Series pages
• 1. Reviewing UK football cultures: continuing with gender analyses
• 2. Gender, feminism and football studies
• 3. ‘I don't think I can catch it’: women, confidence and responsibility in football coach education
• 4. Tokenism, ties and talking too quietly: women's experiences in non-playing football roles
• 5. ‘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
• 6. ‘I'm into high heels and make up but I still love football’: exploring gender identity and football participation with preadolescent girls
• 7. ‘It seems really inclusive in some ways, but… inclusive just for people who identify as lesbian’: discourses of gender and sexuality in a lesbian-identified football club
• 8. British football: where are the Muslim female footballers? Exploring the connections between gender, ethnicity and Islam
• 9. Girls with learning disabilities and ‘football on the brain’
• Index