Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces - Staking Their Claim

This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces - in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise - as a prism to explore grassroots women's engagement with heavily entrenched postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy.

List of contents

1 Introduction
2 Fiji Women's Rugby: Resistance against All Odds
3 Athletic Indo-Fijian Women: Beyond Sporting Absence
4 Vanuatu Women's Beach Volleyball: Subversive Stars in Alignment
5 Solomon Islands Women's Soccer: Seizing the Moment for Change
6 Samoa Women's Rugby: Working with 'Culture'
7 Conclusion

About the author

Yoko Kanemasu is Associate Professor in Sociology in the School of Law and Social Sciences in the University of the South Pacific.

Summary

This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces – in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise – as a prism to explore grassroots women’s engagement with heavily entrenched postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy.

Product details

• Authors: Yoko Kanemasu, Yoko (University of the South Pacific Kanemasu
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9780367704698
• ISBN: 978-0-367-70469-8
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Global Gender
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, Cultural Studies, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Humanities, Sports & outdoor recreation, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Sports and Active outdoor recreation