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Unveiling the Motivations and Challenges: an Introspection into Women's Football in Hungary

Recreation
The article evaluates the current state of hungarian women's football. It recognizes progress in the women's game while addressing persistent challenges like social perceptions and financial disparities. The research aims to comprehend the motivation of
Alexandra Cintia Móczik, Júlia Patakiné Bősze   +1 more
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Has It Never Been a Better Time to Play? Opportunity, Empowerment and Contested Terrains of Women’s Grassroots Football in Australia

Social Sciences
The introduction of the semi-professional Australian Rules Football League for Women (AFLW) in 2017 was indicative of a broader ‘boom’ for women and girls’ sport in Australia. The ‘boom’ promised not only newly created, or enhanced, professional pathways
Alana Richardson, Fiona McLachlan, Brent McDonald   +2 more
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Women’s time? Time and temporality in women’s football [PDF]

Sport in Society, 2016
Time is central to sport, not least football, through measurements and memories. The sophisticated technologies of recording time matter in training and on the pitch, the intensity of spectatorship at the stadium or watching the big screen and memories of being present at big games generate what makes football the beautiful game.
openaire   +1 more source

In the outer--not on the outer: women and Australian rules football

, 2006
This thesis identifies, examines and probes the nature of women's involvement in Australian Rules Football. Rather than have a single theoretical underpinning, an interdisciplinary approach, albeit with a feminist perspective, was applied because of the ...
Hindley, Deborah
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REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Commoning requires repair. Where capitalist logics of accumulation, enclosure and exclusion produce abandoned space through the city, urban commoners remake that space to serve the needs of inhabitants. Without hiding the paradoxes and risks of repair, based on years‐long ethnography in the Liberated Spaces in Naples, Italy, we demonstrate how
Martina Locorotondo, Adam Fishwick
wiley   +1 more source

Internet et mise en visibilité du football féminin en France : entre avancées et paradoxes

Communiquer, 2018
The sub-mediatization of women’s sport is a recurrent question in social science research. Issues are mainly based on traditional media and very little on the Internet, which is nevertheless positioned as the 2nd media medium for sports broadcasting ...
Marie Stéphanie Abouna
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FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of heritage spaces and monuments in the Historic Centre of Mexico City during ongoing feminist mobilizations. Feminists have claimed that the Mexican government is more concerned about protecting monuments and urban heritage than acting to prevent gender‐based violence and femicide.
Fernando Gutiérrez
wiley   +1 more source

Three types of transnational players: differing women's football mobility projects in core and developing countries

Revista Brasileira de Ciências do Esporte, 2016
Mobile players in men's football are highly skilled professionals who move to a country other than the one where they grew up and started their careers. They are commonly described as migrants or expatriate players.
Nina Clara Tiesler
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Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring—A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When evaluating candidates, hiring agents may draw on signals of human as well as cultural capital. While these processes have been considered separately, an open question is how the two types of signals interact. As signals of social class, cultural capital signals relate to human capital as they evoke stereotypes about competence, polish ...
Luisa Burchartz, Kobe De Keere, Sara Geven   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source