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Routledge Women's Motherhood And Sport Collective Stories Of Identity And Difference | Sport & Leisure
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Although sport participation decreases on average for women once they become mothers female athletes from the recreational to the competitive to the elite level have demonstrated that motherhood does not signal the end of sport engagement and athletic identities or career and leadership roles. This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the nexus of women sport and culture within the context of motherhood uncovering new narratives that raise the profile of non-conformist performances. The book brings together international researchers using innovative and rigorous qualitative methods to show how sport affords or constrains women’s agency to devise negotiate and live alternative versions of motherhood in and through sport. Presenting stories of sporting mothers in contexts including martial arts leisure swimming recreational running triathlon and climbing the book explores the shifting meaning and practices of motherhood across social cultural and media/digital landscapes. Deliberately challenging taken-for-granted ways of thinking about motherhood and sport this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the socio-cultural study of sport gender and sport women’s studies sport coaching sport leadership sport development or qualitative and digital research methods. |Motherhood and Sport Collective Stories of Identity and Difference | Sport & Leisure
Routledge Women's Motherhood And Sport Collective Stories Of Identity And Difference | Sport & Leisure
Although sport participation decreases on average for women once they become mothers female athletes from the recreational to the competitive to the elite level have demonstrated that motherhood does not signal the end of sport engagement and athletic identities or career and leadership roles. This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the nexus of women sport and culture within the context of motherhood uncovering new narratives that raise the profile of non-conformist performances. The book brings together international researchers using innovative and rigorous qualitative methods to show how sport affords or constrains women’s agency to devise negotiate and live alternative versions of motherhood in and through sport. Presenting stories of sporting mothers in contexts including martial arts leisure swimming recreational running triathlon and climbing the book explores the shifting meaning and practices of motherhood across social cultural and media/digital landscapes. Deliberately challenging taken-for-granted ways of thinking about motherhood and sport this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the socio-cultural study of sport gender and sport women’s studies sport coaching sport leadership sport development or qualitative and digital research methods. |Motherhood and Sport Collective Stories of Identity and Difference | Sport & Leisure
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