‘Ladies present!’: an auto/ethnographic study of women amateur golfers at an English provincial golf club
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Despite high general participation rates in golf in England and a raft of initiatives to encourage more women and younger players into golf, fewer than one in five amateur golfers in England is female and there is a real dearth of young women entering the sport. Sexist policies and practices have been posited as possible barriers to women’s and girls’ grass-roots participation in golf, but to date little qualitative research has been undertaken on the lived experiences of recreational women players themselves. To address this considerable gap, an 18-month ethnographic and autoethnographic research project was undertaken within a case study club in the English East Midlands. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with thirteen amateur women-players, ethnographic observations, detailed autoethnographic field notes and video auto-reflections, this article explores some of the key themes that emerged from the research, utilising primarily Foucauldian-feminist theoretical perspectives to frame the qualitative findings. The two key themes selected for analysis here are: (1) women’s lived experience of corporeal surveillance in golfing contexts; and: (2) discursive othering and objectification of women in golf.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health |
Vol/bind | 8 |
Udgave nummer | 3 |
Sider (fra-til) | 273-286 |
Antal sider | 14 |
ISSN | 2159-676X |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2016 |
Eksternt udgivet | Ja |
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