When Gender Does Not Matter. The Non/Normative Bodies in the Discourse of Nationality and Sports success

Authors

  • Honorata Jakubowska Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Instytut Socjologii, ul. Szamarzewskiego 89, 60-658 Poznań

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8069.11.2.06

Keywords:

Sport, Gender, Nationality, Success, Non/Normative Body

Abstract

The article presents how the perception of non-normative corporeality changes when gender intersects with the category of nationality and (the lack of) success. It discusses how both of these factors, nationality and success, affect: (1) the choices made by the audience of sports events, (2) the perception of the appearance of individual athletes, and (3) the perception of sport as feminine versus masculine. The article is based on the intersectionality concept and refers to the author’s own research conducted in 2012 and 2013, as well as to the discourse analysis of the selected cases studies.

Author Biography

  • Honorata Jakubowska, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Instytut Socjologii, ul. Szamarzewskiego 89, 60-658 Poznań

    Honorata Jakubowska, dr hab., adiunkt w Instytucie Socjologii UAM. Zainteresowania badawcze: płeć, ciało/cielesność, sport ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem problematyki płci w sporcie. Autorka dwóch monografii: Socjologia ciała (2009, nagroda im. Ossowskiego) oraz Gra ciałem. Praktyki i dyskursy różnicowania płci w sporcie (2014, nagroda Polskiej Akademii Olimpijskiej) oraz licznych artykułów i rozdziałów w pracach zbiorowych dotyczących wspomnianych obszarów badawczych.

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Published

2015-05-31

How to Cite

Jakubowska, Honorata. 2015. “When Gender Does Not Matter. The Non Normative Bodies in the Discourse of Nationality and Sports Success”. Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej 11 (2): 116-29. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8069.11.2.06.