and reality in the WWE divas division. Alex Channon. Sex, violence and female
athletes: the case of the legends football league. Literature. Room: CE04 Chair: ...
PROGRAM Friday, December 13 08.00 – 09.25 09.30 – 09.50
09.50 – 11.00
20 min
11.20 – 12.20
12.20 – 13.20
13.20 – 14.50
Registration and coffee Room: CE11 Welcome Room: C122, MH -Aula Claes Annerstedt, Head of the department Roger Säljö, Dean of the faculty Keynote speaker Room: C122, MH –Aula Chair: Claes Annerstedt Thomas Johansson & Jesper Andreasson Lucia-celebration Coffee Combat Sport Room: CE38 Chair: Alex Channon Anu Vaittinen Contemporary combat sports and gender studies Magnus Stenius Across fighting bodies: A study in the androgynous and hybridized gendered masculinity of mixed martial arts Christopher Matthews Boxing, biology and pastiche hegemony LUNCH Room: C122, MH -Aula Combat Sport Room: CE38 Chair: Christopher Matthews Anne Tjønndal Gendering of coach-athlete relationships in boxing Catherine Phipps Motivation of professional female Muay Thai boxers in training and competition Carrie Dunn ‘Sexy, smart and powerful’: the paradoxes of gender, embodiment and reality in the WWE divas division Alex Channon Sex, violence and female athletes: the case of the legends football league
Women Pioneers Room: CE04 Chair: tba Gigliola Gori The amazing participation of female teams in rowing contests organized by the Serenissima republic of Venice Gerd von der Lippe Nanna With and sports journalism in Norway (19141919) Natalia Camps Y Wilant Female participation at Olympic competitions: the story of a medalist
Literature Room: CE04 Chair: Annette Hofmann Susan Bandy Strategies of exclusion: The sporting woman in film and literature Julie Gaucher Writing sportswomen or crossing boundaries? The example of the French literature (1920-1950) Ellen Turner Mapping post-war attitudes towards girl’s physical education in Britain: Gladys Mitchell’s children’s mystery novels Honorata Jakubowska Disappearing women’s physical culture. The presence and perception of women’s physical culture in Polish social sciences in the 20th and 21st century
10 min 15.0015.40
15.40 – 16.00 16.00 – 16.40
Short break Equestrian Sport Room: CE38 Chair: tba Eva Linghede Passion for horses as gender positioning: boys and men ‘doing gender’ in equestrian sports Katherine Dashper Man, woman and horse: gendered bodies within equestrianism
Dance Room: C104 Chair: Gerd von der Lippe Rachel Sandford ‘ It’s really amazed me what my body can do’: creating a body-positive community in and through dance Angela Pickard Ballet body belief: perceptions of an ideal ballet body from young ballet dancers
Mothers Room: CE04 Chair: tba Katie Snyder Fast mamas: considering gestation and athletic success in the context of gender politics Fabienne Guggisberg The meaning of exercise and physical activity within the everyday lives of mothers with young children
Coffee
16.50
Learning in Physical Culture - Physical Education Room: C122, MH -Aula Chair: Dean Barker Suzanne Lundvall Physical activities and their relation to physical education: A 200-year perspective and future challenges David Kirk Girls’ experiences of physical education and physical culture: an activist research perspective Working group meeting Room: C104
19.30
Conference dinner - Building B
PROGRAM Saturday, December 14 09.00– 10.20
10.20– 10.50 10.50– 11.50
11.50– 12.50 12.50– 14.20
Experiencing Bodies Room: CE38 Chair: tba Ian Wellard Gender and the ageing body in physical culture: an embodied approach Lena Krone The intersection of disability, gender and ethnicity within a sporting setting Charles Little Barriers to women’s sports participation in Saudi Arabia
High-Performance Sport Room: CE04 Chair: tba Tiffany Boyle Visual representations of the WAG gymnastic coach: a discrepancy between two bodies of source material Astrid Schubring Health identities in youth elite sports: practices and constructions in a culture of risk Sandra Guenter The unforgivable transgression. A critical discourse analysis of the representation of Caster Semenya in Swiss print media Sarah Augsburger Gender construction in freestyle snowboarding
Historical Development in Sport Room C104 Chair: Gertrud Pfister Grégory Quin Facing modernity: the genesis and development of rhythmic gymnastics in Switzerland (1974-2012) Daniel Svensson Rational training. Science and experience in training of male and female skiers in the Swedish national team Rob Lake Physical culture as etiquette: the gendered constructions of on-court behavioral transgressions in men’s tennis in the 1970s and 80s Leena Laine Sport, nation, national and international in early Finnish woman gymnastics leaders
Coffee Experiencing Bodies Room: CE38 Chair: Gigliola Gori Annette Hofmann The wounded body in public space: voices of physical active breast cancer survivors Lars Alberth Locker room as feeling rules materialized: masculine displays of emotions, body conduct and space Elisabet Apelmo Being a chick in wheelchair. Gender, functionality and sporting bodies
Combat Sport & Body Building Room: C104 Chair: Christopher Matthews & Alex Channon Gertrud Pfister & Gerald Gems Transgressing taboos and gaining acceptance: women in the world of boxing Chloe Maclean Beautifully violent: the gender dynamic of Karate Airnel Abarra Losing ground: exodus of women bodybuilders to women’s physique
LUNCH BAG Equality in Sport Room: CE04 Chair: Susan Bandy Håkan Larsson When do gender-equality initiatives in sport become an encumbrance? Marie Larneby Gender positions in sport Laura Castleman “Gender? What’s that?”: Working together and eliminating gender difference in junior Korfball Ugochukwu Osuagwu The challenge of discrimination on women development and need for enforcement of women’s rights as human rights in Nigeria-Anti-doping law in Nigeria: the challenges of the world anti-doping code.
14.20– 14.40 14.40– 15.50
Coffee Womens Football: Room: C122, MH -Aula Chair: tba Gabriele Sobiech Struggle for cultural recognition: the lack of fit between coach and students in a football project Caitlin Fisher Body projects: making, remaking and inhabiting the female football body in Brazil Viveka Berggren Torell “It must be a little more close-fitting…”On clothes’ contributions to constructions of femininity within football Eva-Carin Lindgren, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Annette Hofmann, Silke Sinning & Chris Shelton Top-level women football coaches view of critical incidences in their coaching career
