Female Football Players and Fans Intruding into a Man's World

This edited collection draws on social science approaches to provide insights into the world of women’s football and female fans. Providing in-depth analysis of the development of the women’s game in different European countries, it examines both the experiences of female fans of men’s football and...

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Other Authors: Pfister, Gertrud (Editor), Pope, Stacey (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
Series:Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
Subjects:
Sex
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction; Stacey Pope and Gertrud Pfister -- Section 1: Women’s Football and Female Players -- 2. It’s Still a Man’s Game? The Experiences of Top-Level European Women Footballers; Sheila Scraton, Kari Fasting, Gertrud Pfister and Ana Bunuel -- 3. Women, Football and European Integration: Aims, Questions, Methodological and Theoretical Approaches; Gertrud Pfister -- 4. The Beginnings of Women’s Football in South-Western Germany: From a Spectacle to a Sport Event; Markwart Herzog -- 5. Women’s Football Leagues in Europe – Organizational and Economic Perspectives; Marie-Luise Klein -- 6. Outsiders on the Inside: Integrating Women’s and Men’s Football Clubs in England; Jo Welford -- 7. ‘Who Could Name an England Women’s Footballer?’: Female Fans of Men’s Football and their Views of Women’s Football in England; Stacey Pope -- Section 2: Female Football Fans and their Experiences -- 8. A Socio-Historical Account of Female Experiences of Football’s Golden Age in England; Stacey Popeand John Williams -- 9. Is there a Life beyond Football? How Female Fans Integrate Football into their Everyday Lives; Verena Lenneis, Gertrud Pfister and Svenja-Maria Mintert -- 10. ‘One is not Born, but Rather Becomes, a Fan’: The Socialization of Female Football Fans – A Case Study in Denmark; Gertrud Pfister, Svenja-Maria Mintert and Verena Lenneis -- 11. Women’s Football Supporter Culture in Sweden; Aage Radmann and Susanna Hedenborg -- 12. Challenging or Accommodating the Football System? A Case Study of Female Football Supporter Communities in Spain; Ramón Llopis-Goig and Helena Flores -- 13. Gender, Play and Identity: A Longitudinal Study of Structure and Agency in Female Football Fandom; Cornel Sandvoss and Emily Ball 
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520 |a This edited collection draws on social science approaches to provide insights into the world of women’s football and female fans. Providing in-depth analysis of the development of the women’s game in different European countries, it examines both the experiences of female fans of men’s football and women’s views, perceptions and evaluations of women’s football. Female Football Players and Fans will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields, including sports sociology, sport sciences, gender studies, women’s studies and fandom and cultural studies