Gender and Sports I

Sport is, like all human activity, gendered. Our perceptions of what women and men are expected to do are reflected in sports and in ideas about which sports or roles within sports organizations are more or less suitable for men and women. Simple questions are whether a woman can coach a male football team; or a whether a synchronized swimming is a masculine or feminine sport? The course is divided in two half’s. During the first part of the course women’s participation in sports activities in history and in contemporary society are studied from a structural perspective. During the second half of the course the student will concentrate on sportsman\`s or woman´s destiny, in order to analyze the destiny placed in a gendered sports regime. The course will be concluded by the student writing an essay analyzing an individual life experience from a structural perspective. The course has web-based meetings at fixed times.<br> The lectures are recorded but the course introduction is live via Zoom.