Gender, Politics and Change in Mountaineering Moving Mountains

This book is the first edited collection to offer an intersectional account of gender in mountaineering adventure sports and leisure. It provides original theoretical, methodological, and empirical insights into mountain spaces as sites of socio-cultural production and transformation. The book shows...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hall, Jenny (Editor), Boocock, Emma (Editor), Avner, Zoë (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Global Culture and Sport Series
Subjects:
Sex
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1) Introduction: Contextualizing Gender and Transformational Spaces in Mountaineering Adventure Sports and Leisure
  • PART I: TRANSFORMING THE PAST: GENDER AND MOUNTAINEERING HISTORIES
  • 2) ‘That is the lady I saw ascending Snowdon, alone’: Pioneering women mountaineers of the nineteenth century
  • 3)Troubling the silences of adventure legacies: Junko Tabei and the intersectional politics of mountaineering
  • 4) “There is no manlier sport in the world”. How hegemonic masculinity became constitutive of excellence in mountaineering
  • PART 2: TRANSFORMING EXPERIENCE: INTERSECTIONAL MOUNTAIN PLACES AND SPACES
  • 5) Reflexive duoethnography: A dialogic exploration of disability and participation in outdoor adventure activities and a mountain climber academic
  • 6) “The whole trip I basically had to hide”: A Goffmanian analysis of Erin Parisi and negotiating the gendered mountaineering space
  • 7) Exploring the gendered and racialized experiences of Mexican mestiza -women mountaineers through therhizomatic body
  • 8) (Re)naming routes: A tale of transformation in the outdoor rock climbing community.
  • PART 3: TRANSFORMING LEADERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION: CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN OF EQUITY
  • 9) A mountain still to climb: Developing gender parity pathways for women in mountaineering leadership and the role of men
  • 10) A Critical Postfeminist lens as a tool for Praxis
  • 11) Leave Tracks: Gender, Discrimination, and Resistance in Mountaineering
  • PART 4: TRANSFORMATIONAL PEDAGOGIES: CREATING NEW SPACES TO BE A MOUNTAINEER
  • 12) Into the Mountain: challenging hegemonic discourses of mountaineering and expanding the relational field
  • 13) Transformational Learning on the Journey to Mountain Leadership
  • 14) An Autoethnographic Writing of Mountain Skill Courses