03314nam 22006253 450 991077460940332120241107100929.0978100090286010009028629781000902761100090276597810031465131003146511https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003146513(CKB)27181411400041(MiAaPQ)EBC7262511(Au-PeEL)EBL7262511(ScCtBLL)a062708e-8b85-46db-be0a-7dd04cbbfaed(ODN)ODN0009917521(EXLCZ)992718141140004120230825d2023 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces Staking Their Claim1st ed.2023Milton :Taylor & Francis Group,2023.©2023.1 online resource (215 pages)Global Gender Series0-367-70467-6 Introduction -- Fiji women's rugby : resistance against all odds -- Athletic Indo-Fijian women : beyond sporting absence -- Vanuatu women's beach volleyball : subversive stars in alignment -- Solomon Islands women's soccer : seizing the moment for change -- Samoa women's rugby : working with 'culture' -- Conclusion."This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces - in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise - as a prism to explore grassroots women's engagement with heavily entrenched postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy. Based on primary research conducted in Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, the book investigates contested sporting spaces as sites of infrapolitics intersected primarily by gender and also by other markers of inequality including ethnicity, sexuality, class and geopolitics. Contrary to historical and contemporary representations of Pacific Island women as victims of gender injustice, it explores how these athletes and those who support them actively carve out space for their transformative agency. Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces: Staking Their Claim focuses on a region underexamined by sport or gender studies researchers and will be of key interest to scholars and students in gender studies, sport studies, sociology, and Pacific Studies as well as sport practitioners and policymakers"--Provided by publisher.Global Gender SeriesWomen athletesIslands of the PacificSports for womenIslands of the PacificSportsSocial aspectsIslands of the PacificSex roleIslands of the PacificWomen athletesSports for womenSportsSocial aspectsSex role796.082SOC032000bisacshKanemasu Yoko1461192MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910774609403321Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces3664869UNINA