Sport, Gender and Development

Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst is Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University in Toronto, Canada.Holly Thorpe is Professor in the Te Huataki Waiora School of Health, at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand.Megan Chawansky is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Sport Sciences at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, USA.

• Chapter 1. Introducing Sport, Gender and Development: A Critical IntersectionChapter 2. Doing Feminist Research in Sport, Gender and Development: Navigating Relationships, Ethics and Sweaty ConceptsChapter 3. Economic Empowerment in Sport, Gender and Development; with Payoshni MitraChapter 4. Action Sports for Gender DevelopmentChapter 5. Geographies of Gender and Embodiment in Sport for Development WorkChapter 6. Entangled Human and Nonhuman Relations in Sport, Gender and Development; with Lidieth del Socorro Cruz CentenoChapter 7. The Ethics of Visibilities: Sport for Development Media Portrayals of Girls and WomenChapter 8. Feminist Approaches to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL); with Nida AhmadEpilogue; Martha Saavedra

This is a much anticipation and welcomed text, and widely exciting because of the nuanced coalescing of three subject matters: development, gender and sport, which are deeply important to me. I know I would simply pick the book up and look to read it, based on the bringing together of Hayhurst, Thorpe and Chawansky in one space. All brilliant feminist scholars in their own right. This book will undoubtedly hold significant appeal to many of us working in the sport for development, gender, space and will become a must have resource. Those new to thinking about sport for development through a gender lens would do well to make this text their start point! I look forward to having my own well handled, marked up copy and for years to come I have no doubt I will be regularly lifting it off my book shelf and saying to research students. This is a seminal text, make sure you are familiar with it, and the broader work of those who have contributed.