Hanya Pielichaty

• University of Lincoln

Arguably, girls’ and women’s soccer in England is currently experiencing amelioration in terms of participation numbers, media coverage and general public interest. Although, lurking behind these favorable statistics and the pretence of new developmental strategies sits soccer’s cultural millstone, weighing down social progression and limiting the...

The focus on identity has enjoyed a certain permanency within sports studies research, and the relationship between athlete identity and sport is complex and nuanced. Ordinarily literature on girls’ and women’s football (soccer) tends to focus on gender identities rather than identities per se. The purpose of the current paper is to address this is...

Purpose – Contemporary outdoor rock and popular music festivals offer liminoidal spaces in which event participants can experience characteristics associated with the carnivalesque. Festival goers celebrate with abandonment, excess and enjoy a break from the mundane routine of everyday life. The purpose of this paper is to explore the way gender i...

This article explores the influence participating in football has on the development of adolescent girls’ gender identity, an area which currently lacks academic attention. Data are taken from an ethnographic study with a group of adolescent girls and boys and compared to Jeanes’ research. A social constructionist framework was deployed with links...