Privileging Difference: Negotiating Gender Essentialism in U.S. Women's Professional Soccer.
Although women athletes in professional sport are uniquely positioned to expose the limits of gender essentialist ideology and challenge its relationship with inequality, little empirical research has considered how professional women athletes understand and negotiate gender ideologies. Drawing on 1...
| Publicado en: | Sociology of Sport Journal Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 158 - 167 |
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Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.
Jun2021
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