TY - JOUR

T1 - Gender and sportification of mountaineering

T2 - case studies

AU - Pfister, Gertrud Ursula

AU - Gems, Gerald R

N1 - CURIS 2019 NEXS 411

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - The topic of this article is the history of mountaineering using the concepts of gender and “sportification” as theoretical frameworks. Mountains have been and in many regions of the world still are deserted areas which may be accessed by hunters or used in the valleys for goat and sheep framing. People who had to cross them used, as far as possible, the valleys. These attitudes and practices changed in the second half of the 19th century when climbing developed as a sport and when increasing numbers of male “alpinists” competed for first ascents. As this sport was difficult, strenuous and dangerous, mountains were considered as “playing grounds” of men. However, there were some female mountaineers who accompanied men or even climbed with other women. A specific focus of this article will be on the women who, in the true sense of the term, conquered new grounds countering gender stereotypes and the femininity ideals of the 19th and 20th centuries.

AB - The topic of this article is the history of mountaineering using the concepts of gender and “sportification” as theoretical frameworks. Mountains have been and in many regions of the world still are deserted areas which may be accessed by hunters or used in the valleys for goat and sheep framing. People who had to cross them used, as far as possible, the valleys. These attitudes and practices changed in the second half of the 19th century when climbing developed as a sport and when increasing numbers of male “alpinists” competed for first ascents. As this sport was difficult, strenuous and dangerous, mountains were considered as “playing grounds” of men. However, there were some female mountaineers who accompanied men or even climbed with other women. A specific focus of this article will be on the women who, in the true sense of the term, conquered new grounds countering gender stereotypes and the femininity ideals of the 19th and 20th centuries.

KW - Faculty of Science

KW - Mountaineering

KW - Female mountaineers

KW - Sportification

KW - Femininity ideals

U2 - 10.5771/0172-4029-2019-2-234

DO - 10.5771/0172-4029-2019-2-234

M3 - Journal article

VL - 43

SP - 234

EP - 249

JO - Stadion

JF - Stadion

SN - 0172-4029

IS - 2

ER -