Women's football in a global, professional era / edited by Alex Culvin and Ali Bowes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Culvin, Alex, editor.

Bowes, Ali, editor.

Series:

Emerald studies in sport and gender.

Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer for women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 263 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

"The global professionalisation of women's football has gathered momentum in the twenty first century, and professional women footballers are now more prevalent and evident in cultures around the world. Despite increased professionalisation and record-breaking viewing and participation figures for women's football, there are persistent challenges for women in the game. Professional football is now a viable career opportunity for women globally; however, as Women's Football in a Global, Professional Erademonstrates, there are pressing issues and unanswered questions that remain in the game. In this collection, a range of scholars contribute research covering three key areas as women's football shifts into a global, professional era: issues surrounding the historical development of professional women's football, documentation of the lived experiences of women in an emerging professional space and, finally, discussions around commercialisation and media coverage of the sport. Women's Football in a Global, Professional Erais an important addition to discussions on sport as work for women, and an essential reference point for students, researchers and sports professionals interested in the debates around the professionalisation of women's football internationally."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Women's football in a global, professional era – 2 Responsibility and Progress: The English Football Association's professionalisation of the women's game

3. Obrigatoriedade and the professionalisation of women’s football in Brazil

4. Professional women’s football in Norway

A field of empowerment and discrimination

5. On the road to empowerment?: an uneven path to professionalisation in Japanese women’s football

6. Women's football in the Arab region: local perspectives and global challenges – 7 Gender and football in Brazil: the impact of the Paulistana over a generation of Brazilian women players

8 Changing tides or freedom fallacy? A Foucauldian cautionary reading of women’s professional football’s evolving contexts – 9 Negotiating the transition from amateur to semi-professional football status in the FA Women’s Championship – 10 Being 'in' and 'on the field': an auto-ethnographic reflection on elite women’s football in Argentina – 11 Representation matters: race and the history of the England women’s national football team – 12 Power at play - Women's football and commercialisation as a sociological problem – 13 Equal pay debates in International women’s football – 14 A new age for media coverage of women’s sport? An analysis of English media coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup – 15 'Pink hair, don’t care': A print media analysis of Megan Rapinoe at the 2019 women’s World Cup – 16 (De)weaponised for change: how US sport nationalism contributes to the professionalisation of women’s sports

7. Conclusion: research agendas for professional women’s football

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Culvin, Alex Women's Football in a Global, Professional Era

ISBN:

9781800710528 (electronic book)

9781800710528

1800710526