Rugby women. Research Completed

Title

Rugby women.

Lead Author

A Cleary

Organisation(s)

Annals of Leisure Research, 3, 21-32.

Contacts

unknown

Abstract

The author examines social aspects of women’s rugby in New Zealand, and asks how the participants have become ‘rucking women’. That is, how élite women rugby players have expanded and transcended their socially defined feminine embodiment to take part in a physical contact sport like rugby, requiring strength and the kind of movement and embodiment that is generally understood to be masculine. The author notes that these women are enthusiastic players of many sports, and the encouragement of other women rugby players has been their main inducement to play rugby.

Keywords:

elite sport, female, gender, participation, rugby, sports, wm

Areas of Focus

Views

898

Added

November 16, 2011