This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between
1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the …

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 …

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 book presents the most comprehensive mapping and analysis of women's football in
Oceania and is the first to examine the game's historical development alongside social …

Aspects of the organisation and structure of football in the UK have been considered in
several books, academic and popular, as well as in numerous academic papers. The …

In addressing the promise and possibilities of sport, education and social capital this chapter
begins by making a number of introductory remarks. First the notion that a relationship …

This study explores the role of normative conceptions of sex difference through a case study
of an anti-discrimination football tournament in Warsaw, Poland. The tournament has a …

This chapter aims to analyze the gender gap topic in the professional football sector, both in
the sports and managerial fields. The aim is to analyze the relationship linking the …

En los estudios sobre la historia de los deportes, el fútbol practicado por varones ha sido el
que mayor número de investigaciones ha recibido. Por esta razón, en este artículo nos …

In agreeing with Geertz's claim that culture is experiential (1973), I aim to present an
interpretation of a lived experience. It is an autoethnographic reflection of my experience as …