About the course

Sport is, like all human activity, gendered. Our perceptions of what women and men are expected to do are reflected in sports and in ideas about which sports or roles within sport organizations are more or less suitable for men and women. Simple questions are whether a woman can coach a male football team; or a whether a synchronized swimming is a masculine or feminine sport? The course is divided in two half’s. During the first part of the course women’s participation in sport activities in history and in contemporary society are studied from a structural perspective. During the second half of the course the student will concentrate on sportsman`s or woman´s destiny, in order to analyze the destiny placed in a gendered sports regime. The course will be concluded by the student writing an essay analyzing an individual life experience from a structural perspective.

Course content

Syllabus spring 2024

Earlier syllabuses

Entry requirements and selection

Entry requirements

General entry requirements + English 6

Selection

Upper secondary grades 34%, University credits completed 32%, Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT) 34%

Course literature

Compulsory literature

Connell, Raewyn. (2020). Gender – In world perspective. 4. uppl. Cambridge: Polity Press, 208 s.

Hovden, Jorid, och von der Lippe, Gerd. (2019). The gendering of media sport in the Nordic countries. Sport in Society 22(4): 625-638.

Jeanes, Ruth; Spaaij, Ramon; Farquharson, Karen; McGrath, Georgia; Magee, Jonathan; Lusher, Dean och Gorman, Sean. (2021). Gender relations, gender equity, and community sports spaces. Journal of Sport & Social Issues 45(6): 545–567.

Kaelberer, Matthias. (2018). Gender trouble on the German soccer field: can the growth of women’s soccer challenge hegemonic masculinity? Journal of Gender Studies 28(3): 342-352.

Lucas-Carr, Cathryn och Krane, Vikki. (2012). Troubling sport or troubled by sport. Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education 6(1): 21-44.

Pullen, Emma och Silk, Michael. (2019). Gender, technology and the ablenational Paralympic body politic. Cultural Studies 34(3): 466-488.

Ratna, Aarti och Samie, Samaya F. (2018). Race, gender and sport. The politics of ethnic ‘other’ girls and women. London: Routledge, 244 s.

Sartore-Baldwin, Melanie L. (red.). (2013). Sexual minorities in sports. Prejudice at play. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 160 s.

Tjønndal, Anne. (2017). ‘I don’t think they realise how good we are’: Innovation, inclusion and exclusion in women’s Olympic boxing. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 54(2): 131-150.

Toffoletti, Kim. (2014). Iranian women’s sports fandom: Gender, resistance, and identity in the football movie offside. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 38(1): 75-92.

A biography of a sportswoman or sportsman.

In addition to this literature, additional literature of a maximum of 200 pages.

Course evaluation

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

Malmö Mixed-time 100%

Contact

This education is provided by

Faculty of Education and Society

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Department of Sports Sciences

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