Yoko Kanemasu

Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces

Staking Their Claim

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces - in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise - as a prism to explore grassroots women's engagement with heavily entrenched postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780367704674
• ISBN-10: 0367704676
• Artikelnr.: 69986168

Autorenporträt

Yoko Kanemasu is Associate Professor in Sociology in the School of Law and Social Sciences in the University of the South Pacific.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
2 Fiji Women's Rugby: Resistance against All Odds
3 Athletic Indo-Fijian Women: Beyond Sporting Absence
4 Vanuatu Women's Beach Volleyball: Subversive Stars in Alignment
5 Solomon Islands Women's Soccer: Seizing the Moment for Change
6 Samoa Women's Rugby: Working with 'Culture'
7 Conclusion