Sport and its female fans [electronic resource] / edited by Kim Toffoletti and Peter Mewett.
2012
GV715 .S64 2012
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Title
Sport and its female fans [electronic resource] / edited by Kim Toffoletti and Peter Mewett.
ISBN
9780415883818
9780203101384 (electronic book)
9780203101384 (electronic book)
Publication Details
New York : Routledge, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 200 p.
Call Number
GV715 .S64 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.4/83
Summary
"Why do women follow sports? How do they participate from the sidelines and what is the significance of this contribution? What can female fandom tell us about gender relations in sport? This book explores these and related questions by bringing together the varied strands of research being conducted internationally across the social sciences and humanities on this emerging and topical field.While sports spectatorship is a popular and well-respected site of analysis, no book-length, scholarly contribution documents womens experiences of sports fandom. For this reason, there is an obvious need for a book that offers researchers, students and non-professional readers an authoritative introduction to womens modes of sport support. Sport and Its Female Fans will be a landmark contribution in the field of sport research and in studies of sports fandom, making an original contribution to the growing, yet under-researched, area of female sports spectators"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Toffoletti, Kim.
Mewett, Peter.
Mewett, Peter.
Series
Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 17
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