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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 13 December 2021
- ISBN 9781032236872
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages258 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 480 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 Illustrations, black & white 350
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Short description:
This book lifts the lid on the high pressured, complex world of women’s artistic gymnastics. By adopting a socio-cultural lens incorporating historical, sociological and psychological perspectives, it takes the reader through the story and workings of women’s artistic gymnastics.
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This book lifts the lid on the high pressured, complex world of women’s artistic gymnastics. By adopting a socio-cultural lens incorporating historical, sociological and psychological perspectives, it takes the reader through the story and workings of women’s artistic gymnastics.
Beginning with its early history as a ‘feminine appropriate’ sport, the book follows the sport through its transition to a modern sports form. Including global cases and innovative narrative methods, it explores the way gymnasts have experienced its intense challenges, the complexities of the coach-athlete relationship, and how others involved in the sport, such as parents and medical personnel, have contributed to the reproduction of a highly demanding and potentially abusive sporting culture.
With the focus on a unique women’s sport, the book is an important read for researchers and students studying sport sociology, sport coaching, and physical education, but it is also a valuable resource for anyone interested in the development of sporting talent.
"Women?s Artistic Gymnastics is a valuable contribution to the study of female sport
in general and gymnastics in particular. Its fourteen original scholarly essays?plus an
introduction and a conclusion?cover a broad spectrum of historical, sociological, psychological,
medical, and media-related issues from several theoretical and methodological
perspectives and, hence, enriches our understanding of a complex sport."-- Olaf Stieglitz, University of Leipzig More
Table of Contents:
Introduction, Part I: The history, politics, commercialisation and diversification of women?s artistic gymnastics, Jenny?s story: Part I - Frank, 1. Acrobatization and establishment of pixie-style women?s artistic gymnastics, 2. Perfectionization of women?s artistic gymnastics, 3. The commercialization of women?s artistic gymnastics since the 1980s, 4. Diversification of women?s artistic gymnastics since the fall of Communism, Part II: The gymnast experience, Jenny?s story: Part II - An unexpected event, 5. Living with stories of gymnastics in higher education, 6. Media narratives of gymnasts? abusive experiences: Keep smiling and point your toes, 7. Trampoline gymnasts? body-self narratives of the leotard: A seamless fit?, Part III: Coach-athlete relationships, Jenny?s story: Part III - Worries and pressures, 8. Power in coach-athlete relationships: The case of the women?s artistic gymnastics, 9. When the coach-athlete relationship influences vulnerability to sexual abuse of women?s artistic gymnasts, 10. Critical reflections on (adult) coach-(child) athlete ?no touch? discourses in women?s artistic gymnastics: Out of touch, Part IV: The multiple actors involved in creating an elite gymnast, Jenny?s story: Part IV - Enough?s enough, 11. The sorting of gymnasts: An Actor-Network Theory approach to examining talent identification and development in women?s artistic gymnastics, 12. Using a multilevel model to critically examine the grooming process of emotional abusive practices in women?s artistic gymnastics, 13. A figurational approach to women?s artistic gymnastics, 14. Navigating sports medical practice in women?s artistic gymnastics: a socio-cultural analysis, Conclusion
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