Transcending gender hierarchies? : young people and floorball in Swedish school sport
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Transzendierende Geschlechterhierarchien? : junge Menschen und Floorball im schwedischen Schulsport |
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Autor: | Larneby, Marie |
Erschienen in: | Sport in society |
Veröffentlicht: | 19 (2016), 8/9 (Sex Integration in Sport and Physical Culture : Integration in PE and Youth Sport), S. 1202-1213, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Elektronische Ressource (online) Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 1743-0437, 1743-0445, 1461-0981 |
DOI: | 10.1080/17430437.2016.1159194 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU201810007637 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
This research insight discusses young people’s construction and display of gender in a mixed-sex floorball group in a Swedish sport school and explores in what ways gendered power relations were exercised. Observations of floorball lessons with 21 students aged 12-16 and interviews with 7 students were analysed through Lorber’s concept of gender as a social institution. Findings suggested that training in a mixed-sex group seemed to actualize a need to dichotomize and construct distinct groups of boys and girls, and a ‘boys are better than girls’ discourse prevailed. This was explained as being a result of their experiences of playing separately in floorball clubs during leisure time. All contributed to the construction of a discourse where boys were superior and girls inferior, although they were striving towards a uniform way to play. Their attitudes and actions indicated that while gender hierarchies were not transcended, they were, to some extent, negotiated.