WGS354H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tomboy, Sports Club, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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May 24 gender parity and women"s participation in sport. Women face many barriers to participation in sports: discrimination/stereotyping, lower levels of media coverage. Strategic essentialism (gayatri spivak) at the time, theorists were anti-essentialists. Today"s reading enters into an anti-essentialist mindset and objects the category of womanhood and woman. May 10 (societal scale broad purpose of sports). Huggins and randell make a similar argument promoting community and economic development along with peace building and national pride. They suggest that sports can foster redevelopment after traumatic conflicts (ex. They also suggest health benefits, academic success, role models and workplace skills. By promoting on a community and societal level, they empower women on an individual level by promoting self-confidence. Sports can be used as a tool to aid in gender equality and broadly societal change. Randell talks about the traditionally male centered/gendered sports society.
