PERLS104 Lecture Notes - Homophobia, Heterosexuality

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Feb 28: to explain why sports around the world have been defined as men"s activities, why half the world"s population has been excluded" or. Discouraged" through history, and why there have been dramatic increases in women"s participation, we must understand relationships between sports and beliefs about masculinity and femininity and homosexuality and heterosexuality. Ideologies of gender change and aren"t fixed or natural. Ideologies are rooted in relations of power in society. Ideals about what a female body should look like have changed over time socially constructed values and meanings. Participation by girls and women has increased dramatically because of: Uni"s abandoned femnized versions of mens teams names. Gender equity issues exist when sport cultures are: male dominated ( ie. the characteristics of men are the standards for judging qualifications) Male identified ( ie. the orientations/ actions of men are the standards for defining what is right and normal)

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