Feminism and sport

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The second woman who reached the buzzer of the Israeli Ninja competition was the 26-year old Amour Paz. You can read about her, watch her spectacular performance and admire her for doing it "in her own way". She did not care about being disqualified due to the long time-her track took 13 minute and 12 seconds, but just wanted to make it. And she did. Amour, a young gifted female athlete, overcame two of the main hindrances preventing many gifted females materialize their potential in all life areas. The first is the mental obstacle. While almost all men participating in the Israeli Ninja competition look and sound as if they have swallowed a barrel of testosterone, Amour was telling a different story, mainly in her body language: she was hesitating, constantly wiping her sweat, sipping some water, she could not do without as her mouth was very dry-as if she was going to break down. The tall, beautiful, model-like young woman overcame the huge psychological obstacle and "did it". But of no less importance is, in my opinion, Amour's attitude towards being physically strong. Amour is a very attractive young woman dedicating her life to sports, to developing her own strength as others' in her daily job, as a sports instructor. She does not preach about the importance of "healthy life style" or "abut "you are beautiful in all sizes". The change she is making is by her actions rather than by words. When asked to say something at the end of her track she said just two words to all her fellow females: "be strong".-

Feminist sports histories have sought to give voice to the experiences and subjectivities of female athletes and increasingly of female sports fans. Yet the passions of female sports fans have been neglected. This paper traces the affects and subjectivities of female followers of Australian Rules football by way of indepth interviews along with the writings of, and about, female fans. More specifically, it contrasts the relatively inclusive passions fostered by the spectator culture of Australian Rules football with the gendered limits around the possible dreams this sport provokes, before turning to the supposedly “feminine” fantasies of female fans, and concluding with a coda on the problematic intersections of football and sex. Writing the passions of female sports fans into feminist histories of sport allows for a richer understanding of the layered historical interplay of gender and sexuality with the intriguing pleasures and power at the center of popular sporting cultures.

Para abordar los orígenes del balonmano en España, el estudio de nuevas fuentes documentales históricas nos permiten tratar el estado de la cuestión y describir o reinterpretar los acontecimientos hasta la fecha conocidos. El balonmano fue introducido a través de los Exploradores de España, la Escuela Central de Gimnasia y, principalmente, por el deporte femenino en la Universidad de Madrid durante la II República. Las noticias que aquí se presentan contribuyen a construir la historia del balonmano en la coyuntura social del deporte en España entre 1900 a 1939.

As momentum around surfing builds with over 35 million surfers globally and the sport rapidly growing in developing countries, how can we better understand the benefits of surfing and acknowledge its differential effect on minority participants, in particular for females, in diverse cultural and economic settings? Through the delivery of a surf initiative in Iran with young pioneering sportswomen, surfing has become a sport initiated by women and a medium that both challenges and connects across gender, class, ethnic and religious divides within the country. This chapter draws from the author’s experience developing and co-creating the ‘Be Like Water’ initiative with women in Iran, a programme that draws on the notion of blue space or water environments as a powerful medium for health and wellbeing. How the more sensuous qualities of surfing are used to create alternative and transformative ways of learning and doing surfing that challenge dominant surfing identities and practices are discussed. In conclusion, the impact of opening up to and creating accessibility to other possibilities through a lifestyle sport like surfing as a way to challenge social and gender barriers are outlined.

How can ballet offer women an empowering experience? At first sight, it might seem that the centuries-old practice of romantic or classical ballet limits women’s opportunities to transcend gender norms.  As feminist readings of ballet have suggested, balletic performances often force women into feminine stereotypes. Consider for example that ballerinas perform gender notions of slimness and fragility, are objectified by a (male) audience and become restricted in their movements as choreographers and ballet teachers tell them what steps they need to make and how they need to perform them.