Kim Toffoletti

Women Sport Fans

Identification, Participation, Representation. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,4 cm / 15,6 cm / 0,9 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9780367233303
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170 Seiten
Januar 2019
Routledge

This is a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of sport fandom by exploring the growing visibility and interest in women who follow sport. It presents the latest data on women's sport spectatorship in different regions of the world, posing new theoretical paradigms to study the globalised nature of female sport fandom.

Kim Toffoletti is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Deakin University, Australia. She specialises in the study of women's sporting experiences and representations, using transnational feminist and critical postfeminist perspectives. She is the co-editor of Sport and Its Female Fans (Routledge, 2012)

Introduction 1. Facts, Figures and Frameworks: Approaching the Study of Women Sport Fans 2. Identities, Performances and Pleasures 3. Consumption 4. Representation 5. Digital Networks 6. The Postfeminist Sport Fan Conclusion