Motherhood and sport : collective stories of identity and difference / edited by Lucy Spowart and Kerry R. McGannon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spowart, Lucy, editor.

McGannon, Kerry R., editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Qualitative research in sport and physical activity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women athletes--Social conditions.

Women athletes.

Motherhood.

Sports--Social aspects.

Sports.

Exercise for pregnant women.

Physical fitness for women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 208 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Lucy Spowart is an Associate Professor in Clinical Education at the University of Plymouth's Peninsula Medical School, UK. As a competitive age-group athlete, Lucy became particularly interested in the intersection of sport and motherhood. Lucy combines her university career with a part-time profession as an endurance sports coach. She is a Level 3 triathlon coach and has supported mother-athletes at all levels, including in the build up to the European and World Paratriathlon Games. Her current research on university staff experiences of returning to work following maternity leave maintains her ongoing interest in motherhood. Lucy is a member of the Expert Advisory Group on Fellowships and Accreditation for Advance HE and Associate Editor of the journal Higher Education Research and Development. Kerry R. McGannon is a Professor at Laurentian University, Canada. Professor McGannon's research program has advanced critical qualitative methodologies to understand sport and physical activity behaviour. Specific streams of this work explore the socio-cultural influences on self-identity and critical interpretations of sport, physical activity and the psychological implications. Professor McGannon also studies the media as a cultural site of identity construction within the context of sport, physical activity participation and health. Within this research program, she has advanced understanding of motherhood, identity and sport participation across multiple levels of sport using qualitative methods and methodologies. She is Co-Editor of the journal Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology and Psychology of Sport and Exercise.

Contents:

Introduction : contextualising motherhood and sport / Lucy Spowart and Kerry R. McGannon

Phenomenological insights on motherhood and aquatic embodiment / Adam Evans and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson

'Is training with your children a double-edged sword? ': motherhood and martial arts / Sarah Leberman and Jane Hurst

Non-motherhood and motherhood in sport : entangled relations of care / Wendy O'Brien and Adele Pavlidis

Uncovering stories of motherhood and coaching with story completion / Sharon Boswell and Francesca Cavallerio

Materializing risk in the pregnant athlete : using material-semiotic tools to examine blackboxed and dis-qualified 'facts' in the IOC evidence summaries / Shannon Jette

Searching, surfing and seeking Paralympian mothers in social media spaces / Andrea Bundon

Beyond linear understandings of mothers' sporting bodies : digital self-tracking and spacetimemattering / Marianne Clark and Holly Thorpe

Using social media to explore elite athlete mothers and sponsorship : the potential of big data / Ann Pegoraro and Heather Kennedy

Pushing to the limits : a collaborative autoethnography of motherhood, disability, ambition and risk / Lucy Spowart and Sarah Pearson

Mothers at the wall : using creative nonfiction techniques to explore climbing and motherhood / Emily Coates and Ben Clayton

Getting back on the track : an ethnodrama of an elite mother runner's journey / Kerry R. McGannon

Navigating legacies of athlete abuse in motherhood : creative analytical practices as a tool for uncovering post-sport embodiment and practices / Jenny McMahon

Future directions for research into sport and motherhood / Kerry R. McGannon and Lucy Spowart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Motherhood and sport

ISBN:

9781003140757

1003140750

9781000634303

1000634302

9781000634358

1000634353

Publisher Number:

40031366542

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.