Reimagining the Gendering of Sport

Edited by Vikki Krane, Professor Emeritus, School of Applied Human Development, Bowling Green State University, USA, Tanya Prewitt-White empowers individuals and organizations through her work as a speaker, consultant, and coach

• ContentsPreface xvii1 The courage to dismantle sport as we know it 1Tanya Prewitt-White and Vikki KranePART I CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF GENDER2 Reconceptualizing sport: embracing critical feminist theoryand intersectionality 18Jennifer J. Waldron3 Visionary athletic governance: lessons from student-athletesand the AIAW 36Diane L. Williams4 Reimagining Title IX as a civil rights statute aimed atantisubordination rather than equality 52Erin BuzuvisPART II EXPERIENCES OF GENDER IN SPORT5 Yes, still talking about this! Body politics, agency, andembodiment practices in women’s sport 70Kate Russell6 Transforming the quagmire: reimagining girls’ sport andphysical activity 88Katie Sullivan Barak7 Media and gender in sport 107Dunja Antunovic8 Responding to sexual misconduct with a feminist restorativejustice lens 126Tanya Prewitt-White and Tanya RaquelPART III LIVED EXPERIENCES IN SPORT ONE9 The fat “girl” playing tackle football with boys 146Kasie Murphy10 Becoming a black mermaid 150Tiffany Monique Quash11 Thinner = winner 154Emma Calow12 Run like the wind: playing soccer with the boys 158Madeline Wells13 The lies we tell: exploring the intersections of gender andparasport 162Staci Mannella14 The feeling 166Anonymous AuthorPART IV IDENTITIES IN SPORT15 Intersex and trans athletes: who gets to be a “female athlete”? 170Elizabeth A. Sharrow16 Amplifying joy: celebrating the queerness of women’s sport 188Erica V. Bennett and Vikki Krane17 Decentering whiteness in women’s sport 206Emma Calow18 Disability and gender in sport and physical activity 225Toni Louise Williams and Andrea BundonPART V LIVED EXPERIENCES IN SPORT TWO19 The in-between 243Kenj R. Campbell20 Overweight mom to Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter 247Autumn Rena Martin21 Black on ice 250Precious Jackson22 A dream reimagined: reclaiming my story 254Stephanie Wheeler23 The power and poison of achievement 258Gloria H. M. ParkPART VI MOVING FORWARD24 We do not need leaders, we need coactors 263Joanna Line, Jill Kochanek and Anna Baeth25 We won’t quit: athlete activism from erasure to empowerment 279Bernie Compton and Jen Fry26 The end of sport as we know it 297Vikki Krane and Tanya Prewitt-White

‘Both testament and response to entrenched gender inequities in sport, the carefully curated contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars in Reimagining the Gendering of Sport explores the existential question of what it truly means to be human in sport and for sport to be a humane place for every person. The content speaks to the athlete in all of us, to the fundamental need to be able to move freely, unencumbered by the constraints of societal expectations that deny the ability of individuals to realize their full promise and potential, in other words, to live as they were meant to live. For those with an interest in the study of sport at any level and within any context, this book offers intellectually rigorous work delivered with a deeply compassionate sensibility. It dares to envision what a sporting landscape looks like released from misogyny and patriarchy, replaced with an embrace of inclusive frameworks.’