Women's football in a global, professional era. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alex Culvin, Ali Bowes.
• Editors: Culvin, Alex; Bowes, Ali
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Women's Football in a Global, Professional Era; Alex Culvin and Ali Bowes Section A. Emerging Professionalisation Chapter 2. Responsibility and Progress: The English Football Association's Professionalisation of the Women's Game; Beth Fielding-Lloyd and Donna Woodhouse Chapter 3. Obrigatoriedade and the Professionalisation of Women's Football in Brazil; Mark Biram Chapter 4.Professional Women's Football in Norway - A Field of Empowerment and Discrimination; Bente Ovedie Skogvang Chapter 5. On the Road to Empowerment? An Uneven Path to Professionalisation in Japanese Women's Football; Elise Edwards Chapter 6. Women's Football in the Arab Region: Local Perspectives and Global Challenges; Hussa K. Al-Khalifa Section B. Lived Experiences of Professionalisation Chapter 7. Gender and Football in Brazil: The Impact of the Paulistana over a Generation of Brazilian Women Players; Jorge Knijnik Chapter 8. Changing Tides or Freedom Fallacy? A Foucauldian Cautionary Reading of Women's Professional Football's Evolving Contexts; Luke Jones, Zoe Avner, Joseph Mills, and Simone Magill Chapter 9. Negotiating the Transition from Amateur to Semi-professional Football Status in the FA Women's Championship; Ally Forbes, Kay Biscomb, and Jean Williams Chapter 10. Being 'in' and 'on the field': An Auto-ethnographic Reflection on Elite Women's Football in Argentina; Gabriela Garton Chapter 11. Representation Matters: Race and the History of the England Women's National Football Team; Jean Williams Section C. Commercialisation and Media Coverage Chapter 12. Power at Play – Women's Football and Commercialisation as a Sociological Problem; Katie Liston Chapter 13. Equal Pay Debates in International Women's Football; Ali Bowes, Alex Culvin, and Sarah Carrick Chapter 14. A New Age for Media Coverage of Women's Sport? An Analysis of English Media Coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup; Kate Petty and Stacey Pope Chapter 15. 'Pink Hair, Don't Care': A Print Media Analysis of Megan Rapinoe at the 2019 Women's World Cup; Rachael Bullingham and Rory Magrath Chapter 16. (De)Weaponized for Change: How US Sport Nationalism Contributes to the Professionalisation of Women's Sports and Positive Social Change; Kayla Cloud and Erica Tibbetts Chapter 17. Conclusion: Research Agendas for Professional Women's Football; Alex Culvin and Ali Bowes.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages)
• Subjects: 796.334082; Soccer for women
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800710542; 9781800710528
• Related ISBNs: 9781800710535
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