[ecrea] call for contributors to edited collection on women sport fans

> Call for Contributors: Game Women, Sport and its Female Fans.
> Kim Toffoletti and Peter Mewett, eds.
>
> We invite chapter proposals for an edited book 
> on women fans of sports called Game Women: Sport 
> and its Female Fans. The book seeks to explore 
> why women follow sports and the significance of 
> their contribution. We are interested in what 
> female fandom can tell us about gender relations 
> in sport and the changing nature of sport 
> spectatorship. It aims to provide a 
> comprehensive coverage of the unique aspects of 
> being a sports supporter and being female, and 
> pose new paradigms to approach the study of women in the sporting domain.
>
> We are seeking contributions that explore women 
> fans of any sports from a wide range of 
> disciplinary and geographical perspectives. We 
> welcome submissions that consider what it is 
> like to be a female sports fan from a position 
> informed by race, ethnicity, disability and sexuality. Topics may include:
> ?       The impact of women?s support on the 
> construction and performance of gender identity, 
> the maintenance and/or disruption of gender 
> categories, norms, systems and structures;
> ?       The role of media culture ­ television, 
> radio, print media and the internet ­ in women?s experiences of sports fandom;
> ?       Commercialisation and consumerism as it 
> pertains to female sport fan experience;
> ?       How women?s support functions in the 
> maintenance and/or disruption of masculine hegemony in sport;
> ?       The negotiation of gendered selfhood in sport fan communities;
> ?       Women?s support of sport as a leisure practice.
>
> The editors are currently engaged in 
> negotiations with a major publisher who has 
> expressed considerable interest in the book. 
> Please submit abstracts of 200-250 words and a 
> brief author bio by 5 August 2009 to either or 
> both editors (and direct any queries to the editors) at:
> (kim.toffoletti /at/ deakin.edu.au)
> (peter.mewett /at/ deakin.edu.au)
>
>
> Dr Kim Toffoletti, Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Gender Studies
> Secretary, Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA)
> Chief co-editor, Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture
>
> School of History, Heritage and Society Faculty of Arts
> Deakin University 221 Burwood Hwy Victoria 3125 Australia
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> Email: (kim.toffoletti /at/ deakin.edu.au)
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