Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concen

This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces – in particular, rugby un

Extending the horizon of regional sport scholarship beyond the Global North, this volume offers an exciting opportunity for sociology of sport scholars to widen

This book, based on extensive original research, examines the practice by women in a university sport setting of kendo, the Japanese martial art which, using ba

This progressive and broad-ranging handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the complex intersections between politics, gender, sport and physical activity,