Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces

Auteur

Yoko Kanemasu is Associate Professor in Sociology in the School of Law and Social Sciences in the University of the South Pacific.

Texte du rabat

This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces - in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise - as a prism to explore grassroots women's engagement with heavily entrenched postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy.

Contenu

1 Introduction

2 Fiji Women's Rugby: Resistance against All Odds

3 Athletic Indo-Fijian Women: Beyond Sporting Absence

4 Vanuatu Women's Beach Volleyball: Subversive Stars in Alignment

5 Solomon Islands Women's Soccer: Seizing the Moment for Change

6 Samoa Women's Rugby: Working with 'Culture'

7 Conclusion