Sporty Girls: Gender, Health and Achievement in a Postfeminist Era

By Sheryl Clark

Book Overview

1.Defining a "Problem" Girls' Participation in Sport and Physical Education2.Embodying Sporty Girlhood: Exploring Perspectives on Girls' Sporting Participation Through Postfeminism3.Becoming a Sporty Researcher: Gender, Legitimacy and Bodies That Move4.A Good Education: School Achievement, Sport and Becoming a Successful Girl5.Being "Good at Sport" Constituting Bodies Through Competition and Selection Processes6.Responsible Body Projects, Health and Moral Hierarchies7.Gendered and Racialised Bodies in Postfeminist Athletics: Embodied Capacities and Feminist Rage8.Conclusion: Sporting Girlhoods and Feminist Possibilities

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030672484
• ISBN13: 9783030672485
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"