File(s) under permanent embargo
Oh yes, he is hot : female football fans and the sexual objectification of sportsmen’s bodies
The past decade has witnessed a growing focus on the study of women sports fans within the social sciences and related disciplines. Emerging from and responding to the historical marginalization of women in sport and the bias towards the male fan in literature on sports spectatorship, critical research on women spectators serves the valuable function of illuminating “women’s everyday experiences of being a sports fan” (Gosling 2007: 250). This chapter considers one aspect of women’s participation as followers of male sports, namely, the extent to which female fans partake in the sexual objectification of sportsmen. We aim to assess how looking at male athletes in sexually desiring ways impacts on the individual and collective construction of women’s gender and sports fan identities.
History
Title of book
Sport and its female fansChapter number
6Pagination
99 - 114Publisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
New York, N.Y.ISBN-13
9780415883818ISBN-10
0415883814Language
engPublication classification
B1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2012, Taylor & FrancisExtent
10Editor/Contributor(s)
K Toffoletti, P MewettUsage metrics
Categories
No categories selectedLicence
Exports
RefWorks
BibTeX
Ref. manager
Endnote
DataCite
NLM
DC