Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management

by Pirkko Markula (Editor), Annelies Knoppers (Editor)

Overview

This groundbreaking Research Handbook adeptly navigates how gender and diversity are addressed in sport management. Offering insight into practices and processes that work to exclude certain groups and practices, and favour others, it highlights how gendered ways of organizing sport are experienced and may be sustained, disrupted, and challenged.

Leading international scholars employ theoretical frameworks to comprehensively set out how individuals or groups engaged in leading and managing sport are situated in the social world and engage in managerial practices. Providing a wealth of conceptual analyses, the authors of the various chapters explore diverse feminist theories, perspectives, and methodologies to expertly examine gender-based marginalization in sport management at local and international levels. Expert contributors reveal how women negotiate and navigate gender and intersecting identity categories in sport organizations.

Presenting a wide variety of feminist perspectives on sport management, sport organizations, and coaching, this Research Handbook will prove a valuable resource to researchers and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of sport management and sport sociology. It will also be essential reading for policy makers working in sport organizations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781802203684
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	01/10/2024
Series:	International Handbooks on Gender series
Pages:	458
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Pirkko Markula, Professor of Sociocultural Studies of Physical Activity, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Canada and Annelies Knoppers, Professor Emeritus, School of Governance, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Table of Contents

Contents:

Preface xvi
Introduction: why a Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in
Sport Management 1
Annelies Knoppers and Pirkko Markula

PART I ACCESSING POSITIONS OF LEADERSHIP IN
GLOBAL SPORT
1 A decade of tracking women’s participation in the governance
of international sport federations 21
Johanna A. Adriaanse
2 Gender representation and policy implementation in the
governance of international Paralympic organizations 37
Lucy V. Piggott and Jordan J. K. Matthews
3 Gender, leadership, and (dis)ability 52
Erin Pearson and Laura Misener
4 Gender and diversity in mediated sport marketing: using “old”
and “new” media 65
Dunja Antunovic and Annika Olson
5 Doing gender in the neoliberal, global context of sport management 79
NaRi Shin and Doo Jae Park

PART II NAVIGATING AND NEGOTIATING SPORT
ORGANIZATIONS: CENTERING INTERSECTIONALITY
6 Managing gendered sport organizations 94
Laura Burton and Ajhanai C. I. Keaton
7 The “motherhood penalty” and sport leadership 110
Sarah Zipp and Sasha Sutherland
8 The gendered organization of men’s professional sport 124
Lauren C. Hindman and Nefertiti A. Walker
9 Institutional heteronormativity in Dutch sport clubs 137
Inge Claringbould and Pepijn Geldof
10 Heteronormativity and gender-based violence in Sport for
Development 151
Julia Ferreira Gomes and Jessica Nachman, Lyndsay M. C.
Hayhurst, and Mitchell McSweeney

PART III NAVIGATING AND NEGOTIATING SPORT
ORGANIZATIONS: CENTERING COACHING
11 Occupational hazards: harassment and women’s work as sport
coaches 167
Sarah Barnes
12 The socially reproductive labor of women sport coaches 181
Alixandra Krahn and Parissa Safai
13 Refuting gender essentialism about women in sport coaching 192
Nicole M. LaVoi and Anna Goorevich
14 Gender, women, and community sport coaching 206
Ruth Jeanes, Aishwarya Ravi and Laura Alfrey
15 Elite coaching, gender, and diversity 220
Bettina Callary and Brian Gearity

PART IV CHANGING PRACTICES IN MANAGING SPORT
16 Influencers for change: women leading in the outdoor sector 234
Emily Ankers and Beccy Watson
17 Gender inclusive sport: what’s in it for (all) women? 248
Ryan Storr and Sheree Bekker
18 Balancing inclusion, fairness, and binaries in transgender
eligibility sport policies 262
Anna Posbergh
19 Gender and voluntary work for diverse and traditionally
marginalized identities in community sport organizations 277
Dawn E. Trussell and Shannon Kerwin
20 Re-imagining mothers exercising leadership in sport management 291
Talia Ritondo, Sarah Leberman and Dawn E. Trussell
21 Sexualization and gendered empowerment in a Sport for
Development organization in Brazil 304
Eva Soares Moura

PART V THEORIZING GENDER AND DIVERSITY IN
SPORT MANAGEMENT
22 Process-figurational sociology and gender relations in sport
management 318
Louise Mansfield and Philippa Velija
23 Bourdieu on the field: gender, power and the organization of sport 331
Allison Jeffrey and Holly Thorpe
24 Critical feminisms in sport management: theory and practice 345
Sally Shaw
25 Critical discourse analysis, gender, and sport management 358
Larena Hoeber
26 Poststructuralist feminist approaches in sport management research 370
Zoë Avner
27 Phenomenological perspectives for sport management research 385
Gunn Helene Engelsrud
28 Feminist new materialist insights for sport management 398
Simone Fullagar and Adele Pavlidis
Conclusion: directions for future research 413
Pirkko Markula and Annelies Knoppers

Index 430

Editorial Reviews

‘When two pioneers of gender and diversity studies in sport join forces to curate a kaleidoscope of feminist perspectives on gender-based and intersectional marginalization in sport organizations, expectations are high. This Research Handbook firmly delivers on these expectations, offering comprehensive and thought-provoking insights into how gendered ways of organizing and managing sport are experienced and may be disrupted and transformed. The Research Handbook stands out through its theoretical diversity in understanding gender in sport organizations, leadership, and coaching. In doing so, it paves the way for enhancing the breadth and depth of impact of critical research in sport management.’

Ramón Spaaij

‘In the Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management, Markula and Knoppers provide an insightful and encompassing overview of the topic that is impressive in scope and quality. With stellar contributions from leading scholars around the world, this text will undoubtedly impact research, teaching, and practice.’

George B. Cunningham

‘With a wide selection of options for books focused on gender and sport, the Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management stands out for its diversity of topics and integration of current and timely original reference works. The book would be well suited for upper level undergraduate courses focusing on gender and sport, as well as a supplemental text for classes in leadership, organizational behavior, and diversity management.’

Annemarie Farrell

‘A very welcome, important, and valuable contribution to the theorizing of gender and diversity in sport management! The original work by international scholars on how gender intersects with other relations of power offers new, expanding, and exciting insights to the field. Thus, this Research Handbook represents a must and an invaluable reference source for students, faculty, and policy makers in sport.’

Jorid Hovden