Female Football Players and Fans Intruding into a Man's World /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pfister, Gertrud (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pope, Stacey (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
• Subjects: Sports-Sociological aspects.; Sports.; Sports-Psychological aspects.; Sociology.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Sport.; Sport Psychology.; Gender Studies.

This edited collection draws on social science approaches to provide insights into the world of women's football and female fans. Providing in-depth analysis of the development of the women's game in different European countries, it examines both the experiences of female fans of men'...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction; Stacey Pope and Gertrud Pfister
• Section 1: Women's Football and Female Players
• 2. It's Still a Man's Game? The Experiences of Top-Level European Women Footballers; Sheila Scraton, Kari Fasting, Gertrud Pfister and Ana Bunuel
• 3. Women, Football and European Integration: Aims, Questions, Methodological and Theoretical Approaches; Gertrud Pfister
• 4. The Beginnings of Women's Football in South-Western Germany: From a Spectacle to a Sport Event; Markwart Herzog
• 5. Women's Football Leagues in Europe - Organizational and Economic Perspectives; Marie-Luise Klein
• 6. Outsiders on the Inside: Integrating Women's and Men's Football Clubs in England; Jo Welford
• 7. 'Who Could Name an England Women's Footballer?': Female Fans of Men's Football and their Views of Women's Football in England; Stacey Pope
• Section 2: Female Football Fans and their Experiences
• 8. A Socio-Historical Account of Female Experiences of Football's Golden Age in England; Stacey Pope and John Williams
• 9. Is there a Life beyond Football? How Female Fans Integrate Football into their Everyday Lives; Verena Lenneis, Gertrud Pfister and Svenja-Maria Mintert
• 10. 'One is not Born, but Rather Becomes, a Fan': The Socialization of Female Football Fans - A Case Study in Denmark; Gertrud Pfister, Svenja-Maria Mintert and Verena Lenneis
• 11. Women's Football Supporter Culture in Sweden; Aage Radmann and Susanna Hedenborg
• 12. Challenging or Accommodating the Football System? A Case Study of Female Football Supporter Communities in Spain; Ramón Llopis-Goig and Helena Flores
• 13. Gender, Play and Identity: A Longitudinal Study of Structure and Agency in Female Football Fandom; Cornel Sandvoss and Emily Ball.