’Football Fitness’: Constraining and enabling possibilities for the management of leisure time for middle aged women

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’Football Fitness’: Constraining and enabling possibilities for the management of leisure time for middle aged women. / Thing, Lone Friis; Hybholt, Maria Gliemann; Ottesen, Laila.

2015. Abstract from ESA 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015 , Prague, Hungary.

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Thing, LF, Hybholt, MG & Ottesen, L 2015, '’Football Fitness’: Constraining and enabling possibilities for the management of leisure time for middle aged women', ESA 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015 , Prague, Hungary, 25/08/2015 - 28/08/2015.

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Thing, L. F., Hybholt, M. G., & Ottesen, L. (2015). ’Football Fitness’: Constraining and enabling possibilities for the management of leisure time for middle aged women. Abstract from ESA 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015 , Prague, Hungary.

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Thing LF, Hybholt MG, Ottesen L. ’Football Fitness’: Constraining and enabling possibilities for the management of leisure time for middle aged women. 2015. Abstract from ESA 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015 , Prague, Hungary.

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Thing, Lone Friis ; Hybholt, Maria Gliemann ; Ottesen, Laila. / ’Football Fitness’: Constraining and enabling possibilities for the management of leisure time for middle aged women. Abstract from ESA 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015 , Prague, Hungary.1 p.

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title = "{\textquoteright}Football Fitness{\textquoteright}: Constraining and enabling possibilities for the management of leisure time for middle aged women",
abstract = "The aim of the paper is to generate empirically based sociological knowledge about a {\textquoteleft}FootballFitness{\textquoteright} intervention carried out in associative sport clubs. There is an increased pressure onthe voluntary sector, e.g. the sport clubs, to embrace new segments of users and to meet socialand health-related societal challenges related to the welfare state.The empirical material is based on six focus group interviews with female participants (agedbetween 24 and 53) from different clubs all over Denmark. Approximately 32 people haveparticipated in these focus group interviews.The manner in which recreational football activities and the {\textquoteleft}Football Fitness{\textquoteright} concept areexperienced from a participant perspective is examined. We investigate how the implementationis actually carried out in the local football clubs and identify constraining and enablingpossibilities for the management of leisure time. We also examine how Football Fitness as anactivity and concept can {\textquoteleft}work{\textquoteright} for the participants in their everyday life. Even though it is a fewdecades since Elias and Dunning wrote (1986: 93) that leisure remains relatively neglected asan area of sociological research, their statement is still relevant, and inspired by them, we havechosen to analyse Football Fitness as part of a spare-time spectrum. How do grown up womenmake sense of their new {\textquoteleft}football lives{\textquoteright}?",
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AB - The aim of the paper is to generate empirically based sociological knowledge about a ‘FootballFitness’ intervention carried out in associative sport clubs. There is an increased pressure onthe voluntary sector, e.g. the sport clubs, to embrace new segments of users and to meet socialand health-related societal challenges related to the welfare state.The empirical material is based on six focus group interviews with female participants (agedbetween 24 and 53) from different clubs all over Denmark. Approximately 32 people haveparticipated in these focus group interviews.The manner in which recreational football activities and the ‘Football Fitness’ concept areexperienced from a participant perspective is examined. We investigate how the implementationis actually carried out in the local football clubs and identify constraining and enablingpossibilities for the management of leisure time. We also examine how Football Fitness as anactivity and concept can ‘work’ for the participants in their everyday life. Even though it is a fewdecades since Elias and Dunning wrote (1986: 93) that leisure remains relatively neglected asan area of sociological research, their statement is still relevant, and inspired by them, we havechosen to analyse Football Fitness as part of a spare-time spectrum. How do grown up womenmake sense of their new ‘football lives’?

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