Background There is a paucity of studies reporting on women's injuries in rugby union.
Objective The aim of this systematic review was to describe the injury epidemiology for …

Foucault's notions of disciplinary processes, power, and docile bodies are used in this article
to understand the complexity of the body and physicality in women's rugby. Drawing on data …

The goal of this article is to present the output of a study on women who play rugby union at
international level. This article aims to uncover the steps in their sport socialization–in rugby …

Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,
Canada Female apologetic behaviour in sport includes any behaviour by female athletes …

Pleasure can be regarded as a productive force in the constitution of the social significance
of sport and desiring sport subjects. The organization and use of sport pleasure has been a …

To date, there is little research focusing on the role of culture and Indigenous ways of
knowing in Western science-dominated high performance sporting environments. This …

For a long time, rugby union was reserved for men in France. The French rugby union
federation only opened its doors to women in 1989. Twenty years later, we asked ourselves …

This study examined the nature of participation motivation for starting and continuing to play
rugby among elite Canadian women rugby union players. A snowball technique was used to …

Sociology and history are intimately related to each other and cannot be clearly separated or
isolated from each other which resonates with a Māori view of time (the past, present, and …

Negative societal pressures against women's participation in traditionally male-dominated
sports like rugby are widely acknowledged, but little empirical research has investigated …