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- Title
The Penalty That's Never Called: Sexism in Men's Hockey Culture.
- Authors
Fowler, Teresa Anne; Moore, Shannon D.M.; Skuce, Tim
- Abstract
During the summer of 2022, Hockey Canada faced a reckoning regarding its outright denial of the ways in which gender-based violence is a part of hockey culture. This paper shares data from a study that involved qualitative interviews with semi/professional men's ice hockey players regarding their resistance to the expectations of hypermasculinity in hockey culture. Hypermasculinity is the elevated status of traits that promote violence, stoicism, and aggression and that privileges the locker-room code of silence. Participants spoke about the dangers of playing through pain as well as the precarity of their roles on their teams due to policing strategies that put the team before anything else. The participants were less direct about the ways sexism and misogyny are used as a means to improve team bonding and performance, yet stories of sexism and misogyny were riddled throughout the data. Our analysis brings together Bourdieu's concept of misrecognition to gain understanding as to why sexism remains/ed silent and Freire's conscientization to promote more dialogic encounters to clear the air of sexism in men's ice hockey.
- Subjects
HOCKEY; SEXISM; HOCKEY players; VIOLENCE against women; CULTURE; MISOGYNY
- Publication
Sociology of Sport Journal, 2023, Vol 40, Issue 4, p452
- ISSN
0741-1235
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/ssj.2023-0005