Buchtitel	1
	Contents	4
	Introduction	6
	Gender and Sport in a Historical Perspective	11
	Writing Women’s and Gender Sport History: Personal Reflections	12
	Defining Women’s History and Gender History	13
	Women’s and Gender Sport History	14
	Three Exemplars in Gender Sport History	16
	The Future of Feminist Sport History	24
	Gender, Sport and Power: Women as Leaders and Coaches	28
	Women as Agents of Change in Male Dominated Sports Cultures	29
	Introduction	29
	Empirical Basis: Material and Methodologies	30
	Theoretical and Analytical Framework: Processes of Gendering and “Minoritizing”	31
	Powerful Women as Agents of Change	33
	A Female Pioneer in Local Sports: Mandate and Practices	33
	Powerful Women at the National Level: Mandates and Practices	36
	Negotiations on Gender and Power: Similarities and Differences	40
	Conclusions	42
	The Role of Men in Advancing Gender Equality in Sport Governance	46
	Introduction	46
	The Role of Men in Obstructing and Advancing Gender Equality	48
	Conceptual Framework: Masculine Ethic in Organisational Management	49
	Connell’s Four Dimensional Model of Gender Relations	50
	Method	51
	Case Study: The Regime of Gender Mainstreaming in Process	53
	Production Relations	54
	Power Relations	56
	Emotional Relations	57
	Symbolic Relations	58
	Discussion	59
	Conclusion	62
	Outsiders: Female Coaches Intruding Upon a Male Domain?	67
	Introduction and Issues Discussed	67
	Male and Female Coaches: Numbers from Selected Countries and Events	68
	Female Coaches: The Situation in Germany	70
	Reasons and Potential Explanations	71
	Perceptions, Evaluations and Stereotypes: Coaching Styles and Sexual Orientation	72
	Licenses and Education of Coaches in Germany	73
	Recruitment of Coaches	76
	Working Conditions	78
	A First Conclusion	80
	Embedding Empirical Findings: Theoretical Considerations	80
	Labor Market Theories	81
	The Labor Market for Female Coaches: The Individual Perspective	82
	Structural Levels: The Dual Labor Market and its Impact on the Culture of Organizations	84
	Conclusion and Perspectives	86
	Women in “Men’s Sports”	96
	Players’ and Coaches’ Experiences with the Gendered Sport/Media Complex in Elite Football	97
	Introduction	97
	The Norwegian Field of Sport	97
	Sport as a Social Space from the Perspective of Pierre Bourdieu	100
	Aims of the Study	102
	Methods	102
	Financial Conditions	103
	Media Coverage	107
	Commercialization and the Sport/Media Complex	110
	Concluding Remarks	113
	Women Battling for a Space in Snowboarding	117
	Introduction	117
	Snowboarding: From a Counterculture to a Competitive Sport	118
	Norwegian Snowboard Federation	120
	Methods and Participants	121
	The Origin of PowderPuffGirls	121
	PowderPuffGirls’ Networking and Communication	124
	The Development and Progress of PowderPuffGirls	125
	Challenges and Success	127
	PowderPuffGirls 2.0	129
	Concluding Remarks	130
	Discourses on Women’s Dress Codes in Beach Volleyball and Boxing: In the Context of the Current Consumer Culture	134
	Introduction	134
	Dress Code Glimpses of Fashion and in Organized Sports in a Historical Perspective	134
	The Dress Code Discourses in Beach Volleyball	137
	Analysis of the Different Dress Code Discourses	138
	The Dress Code Discourses in Boxing	141
	The Dress Code Discourses and their Consequences	144
	Reflections on Polarities in Language, Sexualities, Dress Codes and Bodies	145
	Health Issues: Harassment, Homophobia, and Empowerment	151
	Issues of Gender and Sexuality in Sport	152
	The Field of Sports	152
	Gender and Sexuality	154
	Queering Sport	155
	Methods and Results	156
	Gay/Lesbian Sports and Political Activism	157
	“Goddamn it, we’re not going to lose to a bunch of fucking poofters!”	161
	Closing Remarks	163
	Sexual Harassment of Female Athletes	167
	What Constitutes Sexual Harassment	167
	Sexual Harassment in Sport: Why and How	169
	Sexual Harassment in Female Athletes: Prevalence, Risk and the Aftermath	172
	The Need for Safety	175
	Explorations on Attachment Styles, Gender and Sport	181
	Introduction	181
	Traumatic Abuse and Attachment	181
	Attachment Theory and Sport: Basic Framework	182
	Concluding Thoughts	187
	Doing Gender in Physical Education: Contested Discourses and Practices	190
	Feminism and Physical Education: Does Gender still Matter?	191
	Introduction	191
	The Changing World of Feminism	192
	Feminism and PE: Bodies, Identities and Difference	195
	Feminist Praxis	199
	Gender still Matters	201
	Conclusion	204
	Teacher Educators’ Gendered Workplace Tales	209
	Introduction	209
	“Innocent” Lunchtime Banter	211
	Unravelling the Tale	214
	Concluding Comments	219
	Norwegian-Pakistani Girls’ Experiences in Physical Education in Norway	224
	The Norwegian Context	224
	Previous Research on Physical Education and Sport among Muslim Girls in Diaspora	226
	Third Wave Feminism	229
	Method	231
	Emerging Themes and Interpretations	232
	Concluding Discussion	235
	Personal Memories and Perspectives	240
	Letter to a Friend: Reflections on a Research Journey	241
	Women, Traditions and their Opportunities in Sport Management: The Czech Experience	250
	Czech Women: Still Hampered by Tradition	250
	National Traditions and Expectations are reflected in Women’s Sport Leadership Opportunities	251
	It may be Czech Crystal or Glass – But there is a Ceiling	252
	Cutting through the Crystal Ceiling	252
	Kari Fasting’s Contribution and Influence on the International Women and Sport Movement	255
	Biographies	258