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Pacific Island women and contested sporting spaces : staking their claim /

"This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces - in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise - as a prism to explore grassroots women's engagement with heavily...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kanemasu, Yoko (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Series:Global gender
Subjects:
Women athletes > Islands of the Pacific.
Sports for women > Islands of the Pacific.
Sports > Social aspects > Islands of the Pacific.
Sex role > Islands of the Pacific.
Rôle selon le sexe > Pacifique, Îles du.
Sportives > Pacifique, Îles du.
Sports féminins > Pacifique, Îles du.
Sports > Aspect social > Pacifique, Îles du.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
Sex role
Sports for women
Sports > Social aspects
Women athletes
Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Fiji women's rugby : resistance against all odds
  • Athletic Indo-Fijian women : beyond sporting absence
  • Vanuatu women's beach volleyball : subversive stars in alignment
  • Solomon Islands women's soccer : seizing the moment for change
  • Samoa women's rugby : working with 'culture'
  • Conclusion.