| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Global gender
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Fiji women's rugby : resistance against all odds -- Athletic Indo-Fijian women : beyond sporting absence -- Vanuatu women's beach volleyball : subversive stars in alignment -- Solomon Islands women's soccer : seizing the moment for change -- Samoa women's rugby : working with 'culture' -- Conclusion. |
| 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. Based on primary research conducted in Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, the book investigates contested sporting spaces as sites of infrapolitics intersected primarily by gender and also by other markers of inequality including ethnicity, sexuality, class and geopolitics. Contrary to historical and contemporary representations of Pacific Island women as victims of gender injustice, it explores how these athletes and those who support them actively carve out space for their transformative agency. Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces: Staking Their Claim focuses on a region underexamined by sport or gender studies researchers and will be of key interest to scholars and students in gender studies, sport studies, sociology, and Pacific Studies as well as sport practitioners and policymakers"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Biography |
Yoko Kanemasu is Associate Professor in Sociology in the School of Law and Social Sciences in the University of the South Pacific. |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
| Subject |
Women athletes -- Islands of the Pacific.
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Sports for women -- Islands of the Pacific.
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Sports -- Social aspects -- Islands of the Pacific.
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Sex role -- Islands of the Pacific.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kanemasu, Yoko. Pacific Island women and contested sporting spaces Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9780367704674 (DLC) 2023009565 |
| ISBN |
9781003146513 (ebook) |
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1003146511 |
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9781000902761 (electronic book : PDF) |
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1000902765 (electronic book : PDF) |
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9781000902860 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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1000902862 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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9780367704674 (hardback) |
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9780367704698 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9781003146513 doi |
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