Sport, Gender and Mega-Events

Katherine Dashper is Reader and Director of Research Degrees at the School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management at Leeds Beckett University. Her research applies a critical sociological lens to examine practices of sport, leisure and work, particularly focusing on gender issues and interspecies encounters.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Sport, gender and mega-events; Katherine DashperSection 1. Problematising gendered bodies and behaviours Chapter 2. Sex testing in sport mega-events: fairness and the illusive promise of inclusive policies – situating inter* and trans*athletes in elite sport; Anna Adlwarth Chapter 3. Ethical relativism and sport mega-event gendered discourses: uneasiness towards the dominant play of women in sport; Lindsey Darvin and Ann Pegoraro Section 2. Masculinity, sport and mega-events Chapter 4. Not feeling so mega, but still being a mega star: Exploring male elite athletes’ mental health accounts from a gendered perspective; Charlie V.L. Smith Chapter 5. Security, Locality and Aggressive Masculinity: Hooliganism and nationalism at football mega-events; Jonathan Sly Chapter 6. The Formula One paradox: Macho male racers and ornamental glamour ‘girls’; Damion Sturm Section 3. Gender, disruption and transformation at mega-events Chapter 7. “Dare to Shine”: Megan Rapinoe as the Rebellious Star of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2019; Riikka Turtiainen Chapter 8. Who owns the ball? Gender (dis) order and the 2014 FIFA World Cup; Jorge Knijnik, Rohini Balram, and Yoko Kanemasu Chapter 9. I gotta feeling … Let’s turn to the people! The 2018 Football World Cup in Russia; Katarzyna Raduszyńska Section 4. Gender, sport and mega-events: Moving towards equality? Chapter 10. Sport Mega-Events as Drivers of Gender Equality: Women’s Football in Spain; Celia Valiente Chapter 11. The Solheim Cup: Media Representations of Golf, Gender and National Identity; Ali Bowes and Niamh Kitching Chapter 12. Flag Before Gender Biases? The Case for National Identity Bolstering Women Athlete Visibility in Sports Mega-Events; Andrew C. Billings and Patrick C. Gentile Chapter 13. Conclusions: Sport, gender and mega-events: looking to the future; Katherine Dashper

'The book as a whole invites us to view issue of gender and mega-events as a multifaceted phenomenon that can be studied from multiple perspectives and theories, and as such is useful for both scholars and students of sport studies and critical event studies.'