Women's football in a global, professional era

The global professionalisation of women's football has gathered momentum in the twenty first century, and professional women footballers are now more prevalent and evident in cultures around the world. Despite increased professionalisation and record-breaking viewing and participation figures f...

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Other Authors Culvin, Alex (Editor), Bowes, Ali (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
SeriesEmerald studies in sport and gender.
Subjects
Soccer for women.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781800710542
DOI10.1108/9781800710528
Physical Description1 online resource (288 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Women's football in a global, professional era / Alex Culvin and Ali Bowes Section A. Emerging Professionalisation
  • Chapter 2. Responsibility and progress: The english football association's professionalisation of the women's game / Beth Fielding-Lloyd and Donna Woodhouse
  • Chapter 3. Obrigatoriedade and the professionalisation of women's football in Brazil / Mark Biram
  • Chapter 4.professional women's football in norway - a field of empowerment and discrimination / Bente Ovedie Skogvang
  • Chapter 5. On the road to empowerment? An uneven path to professionalisation in Japanese women's football / Elise Edwards
  • Chapter 6. Women's football in the arab region: Local perspectives and global challenges / Hussa K. Al-Khalifa Section B. Lived Experiences of Professionalisation
  • Chapter 7. Gender and football in Brazil: The impact of the paulistana over a generation of Brazilian women players / Jorge Knijnik
  • Chapter 8. Changing tides or freedom fallacy? A foucauldian cautionary reading of women's professional football's evolving contexts / Luke Jones, Zoe Avner, Joseph Mills, and Simone Magill
  • Chapter 9. Negotiating the transition from amateur to semi-professional football status in the FA women's championship / Ally Forbes, Kay Biscomb, and Jean Williams
  • Chapter 10. Being 'in' and 'on the field': An auto-ethnographic reflection on elite women's football in Argentina / Gabriela Garton
  • Chapter 11. Representation matters: Race and the history of the England women's national football team / Jean Williams Section C. Commercialisation and Media Coverage
  • Chapter 12. Power at play - women's football and commercialisation as a sociological problem / Katie Liston
  • Chapter 13. Equal pay debates in international women's football / Ali Bowes, Alex Culvin, and Sarah Carrick
  • Chapter 14. A new age for media coverage of women's sport? An analysis of English media coverage of the 2015 FIFA women's world cup / Kate Petty and Stacey Pope
  • Chapter 15. 'Pink hair, don't care': A print media analysis of Megan Rapinoe at the 2019 Women's World Cup / Rachael Bullingham and Rory Magrath
  • Chapter 16. (de)weaponized for change: How us sport nationalism contributes to the professionalisation of women's sports and positive social change / Kayla Cloud and Erica Tibbetts
  • Chapter 17. Conclusion: Research agendas for professional women's football / Alex Culvin and Ali Bowes.

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