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Association between Old Firm football matches and reported domestic (violence) incidents in Strathclyde, Scotland

open access: yes, 2013
Media reports have suggested that the number of reports of domestic violence may increase when Scotland's two largest, Glasgow-based football (soccer) clubs, Rangers and Celtic (traditionally referred to as the “Old Firm”) play one another.
Williams, Damien John   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Consumer profiles of women’s football spectators

open access: yes, 2021
Hallmann K, Giel T, Beermann S, Herold E, Breuer C. Consumer profiles of women’s football spectators. Soccer & Society.
Breuer, Christoph   +4 more
core   +1 more source

‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesRecreation
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   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spillovers from the Gridiron: Evidence from Women’s Collegiate Basketball [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper empirically investigates whether schools with an intercollegiate football team experience greater attendance at women’s basketball games. The empirical question is important because if football increases attendance and hence revenue to other ...
Courtney Williams, Craig A. Depken, II
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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

open access: yesSocial 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesCommuniquer, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Before football: the beginnings of women’s involvement with sport in Brazil’s nineteenth century

open access: yes, 2022
In Brazil, football only began to become known and structured during the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. At this time, the country already had a well-shaped sports scene that enabled the rapid spread of football across its ...
Melo, Victor Andrade de   +1 more
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Becoming Fans: Socialization and Motivations of Fans of the England and U.S. Women’s National Football Teams

open access: yes, 2022
The professionalization, commercialization, and mediatization of women’s football have opened new opportunities for fan attachments, engagements, and identities. Yet limited empirical research has addressed how or why fandom develops for women’s football,
Pope, Stacey, Allison, Rachel
core   +1 more source

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