Zusammenfassung

This study discusses ways how patterns of masculinity and femininity construct themselves in gendered practices of ice hockey, in the bodies of female ice hockey players and their gender identifications and how the players construct their gender performances. Opening section describes gender as an analytical category in the sport as a male domain where there are reproduced and emphasized elements of traditional masculinity as physical strength and dominance that are contrasted to the attributes of traditional femininity such as vulnerability and passivity. It outlines how gender is constituted in the sport in general and in ice hockey as a masculine sport, and how the norms of masculinity and femininity are reproduced through them. The dynamics of relationship between gender and ice hockey team is treated within the case study of a Czech women hockey team. The study discusses how gender positions of female hockey players of this team are constituted within the team dynamics, the effect of normative femininity to the constructions of physical performances, the concept of physical fitness for hockey and gender conformity appearance. It also outlines the gendered formal grounding of the women hockey through the rules and hierarchical structures and the influence of media coverage and the segregation. ; Tato studie se zabývá způsoby, jak se vzorce maskulinity a femininity konstruují v genderovaných praxích ledního hokeje, v tělech ledních hokejistek a jejich genderových identifikacích a jak hráčky konstruují své genderové performance. Úvodní sekce popisuje gender jako analytickou kategorii ve sportu jako mužské doméně, v níž jsou reprodukovány a zdůrazňovány prvky tradiční maskulinity jako je fyzická síla a dominance, které jsou stavěny do protikladu vůči atributům tradiční feminity jako je zranitelnost a pasivita. Je nastíněn způsob, jak se konstituuje gender ve sportu obecně i v ledním hokeji jako maskulinním sportu, a jak se skrze ně reprodukují normativy maskulinity a femininity. Je rozpracována dynamika vztahu ...