Alternative Chicks: Examining Women Freeskiers and Empowerment
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- dc.contributor.author Klein, Kevin
- dc.contributor.author Weaving, Charlene
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-17T08:57:07Z
- dc.date.available 2024-10-17T08:57:07Z
- dc.date.issued 2016
- dc.date.modified 2020-05-11T16:18:16Z
- dc.description.abstract We consider the possibility of rethinking gender through alternative sports. In particular, we focus on freeskiing (often referred to as extreme skiing) and argue that freeskiing offers a space in which traditional mainstream values can be questioned to a far greater extent than in mainstream sport cultures (like those of football, softball, and ice hockey). If so, they provide an opportunity for alternative understandings of gender to emerge. We examine what would need to happen within the world of freeskiing in order for a more inclusive understanding of gender to emerge through the process of worldmaking. More specifically, we consider various factors within the subculture of freeskiing that influence questions concerning gender constructions including the presentation of women athletes in films, magazines, and other sport media, conceptions of gender among non-competitive backcountry skiers, and the general understanding of the relationship between humans and nature within the sport. We argue that gaining a better understanding of these features is an important step in considering how conceptions of gender may be altered in the sport of skiing.
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- dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/FairPlay/article/view/299636
- dc.identifier 2014-9255
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/62669
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- dc.relation.haspart FairPlay, Revista de Filosofia, Ética y Derecho del Deporte, 2016, Núm. 7 (2016), p. 1-23
- dc.relation.haspart FairPlay, Revista de Filosofia, Ética y Derecho del Deporte, 2016, Núm. 7 (2016), p. 1-23
- dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/FairPlay/article/view/299636/389104
- dc.rights.uri info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
- dc.source.uri RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)
- dc.subject.other freeskiing
- dc.subject.other skiing
- dc.subject.other gender
- dc.subject.other empowerment
- dc.subject.other alternative sport
- dc.title Alternative Chicks: Examining Women Freeskiers and Empowerment
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion