Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges

Simone Fullagar is chair of the Sport and Gender Equity research hub at Griffith University. As an interdisciplinary sociologist Simone works with feminist new materialist theories and (post)qualitative methods to pursue change across sport, health, and physical cultures.Emma Rich is chair of the Physical Culture, Sport and Health research group at University of Bath. Working across sociology and critical pedagogies, her work advances theoretical frameworks to understand how people learn about health and their bodies and the impact on their identities, health practices, and physical activity. Adele Pavlidis is an interdisciplinary sociologist at Griffith University. Her work traverses the fields of sport, mental health, and feminism and draws on contemporary theorisations of affect and emotion. She has published two co-authored monographs and a number of articles in international peer-reviewed journals and edited collections. Cathy van Ingen is an interdisciplinary scholar whose academic and activist work is informed by cultural studies, feminist, and critical race theories. Her research is focused on gender-based violence, sport for development and peace, trauma and violence informed approaches to physical culture, and the relationship between sport, inequality, and social change.

• 1. Feminist Knowledges as Interventions in Physical CulturesSimone Fullagar, Emma Rich, Adele Pavlidis and Cathy van Ingen2. Feminism and the Physical Cultural Studies Assemblage: Revisiting Debates and Imagining New DirectionsHolly Thorpe and Amy Marfell3. Exploring Prenatal Physical Activity at the "Postgenomic Turn": A Transdisciplinary JourneyShannon Jette, Katelyn Esmonde and Julie Maier4. Gender Relations and Sport for Development in Colombia: A Decolonial Feminist AnalysisSarah Oxford and Ramón Spaaij5. Creating Distance from Body Issues: Exploring New Materialist Feminist Possibilities for Renegotiating Gendered EmbodimentJulia Coffey6. Becoming Footballer: An Authoethnographic InquiryJohn Ray7. Cycling Assemblages, Self-Tracking Digital Technologies and Negotiating Gendered Subjectivities of Road Cyclists On-the-MoveLance Barrie, Gordon Waitt and Chris Brennan-Horley8. SheBelieves, but does she? Complicating white women’s understandings of the postfeminist-neoliberal empowerment discourseJulie Brice and David L. Andrews