WGS160Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Instrumental And Value Rationality, Personal Boundaries, Flag Carrier
26 Mar 2016
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Guided reading question: how is the gender binary (re)produced in sports in these readings, and what are some of the consequences when these binaries are transgressed: theberge, nancy. (1997). It"s part of the game: physicality and the production of gender in women"s hockey. Competitive sport is one of the most important arenas for the production and expression of gender. Images of ideal masculinity are constructed and promoted most systematically through competitive sport. Whitesome notes that body contact sports are one of the few areas of public life in which force and intimidation are still allowed to triumph. Thus the movement of women into these sports is a particularly important instance of the shifting terrain of gender relations. This article provides an analysis of challenges to hegemonic masculinity posed by women"s participation in the flag carrier sport of ice hockey. Examination of the material and ideological conditions that structure the experience of physicality.
