In this article, I explore some of the ways gender has been interpreted over time within
different feminisms and how this might be of use to a critical football studies. I move between …

In 2011, the Football Association (FA), the national governing body of football in England,
launched the first semi-professional league for women. The inception of the FA Women's …

This article explores discourses of gender and sexuality in relation to female football players
located within the context of 'gay sport'. The findings presented are taken from my PhD …

This thesis is an exploratory study which examines, comparatively, the largely neglected
area of female sports fandom. Using the UK East Midlands city of Leicester as a case study …

In this article we adopted Foucault's genealogical approach to examine the emergence of
the female footballer in the early 1970s. Results from in-depth interviews and document …

This chapter introduces women's football in a global, professional era. Key in this is an
acknowledgement of the male-dominated roots of the sport in many contexts, which has …

Examination of the relationship of Australian women with football as a contested project and
its contemporary positioning as an increasingly popular, televised sport supported by …

As an emerging sport, élite Scottish women's football faces many of the obstacles that have
traditionally blighted women's sport in general. As a result, players contend with a number of …

In this chapter I will discuss the complexity of transfer of football1 players from Africa to
Europe, and the situations of African footballers in Norway. Male African footballers will be in …

The nature of the talent development environment, and key psychological attributes of the
players themselves (eg, self-regulated learning) can explain why some players realise their …