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- Title
Exploring the complexities of community attitudes towards women's rugby: Multiplicity, continuity and change in Fiji's hegemonic rugby discourse.
- Authors
Kanemasu, Yoko; Johnson, James
- Abstract
Negative societal pressures against women's participation in traditionally male-dominated sports like rugby are widely acknowledged, but little empirical research has investigated community attitudes associated with such participation, especially in non-Western contexts. This article presents exploratory insights into community attitudes towards women's rugby in Fiji with a focus on athletic young women, who do not play rugby but are physically active, and their 'gatekeepers' or those in positions of influence over athletic young women's sport-related decision-making. Based on a questionnaire survey (n = 160) and focus groups, the article identifies significant diversity, possible change, and persisting disapproval in community perceptions of women's participation in rugby. From these findings, the article also draws some insights into the changing dynamics of women's rugby as a site of hegemonic struggle.
- Subjects
WOMEN'S rugby football; WOMEN'S sports; EMPIRICAL research; GENDER inequality; RUGBY football players
- Publication
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2019, Vol 54, Issue 1, p86
- ISSN
1012-6902
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1012690217707332