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Author:   Alex Culvin (Leeds Beckett University, UK) ,  Ali Bowes (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9781800710535

ISBN 10:   1800710534
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   09 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Women’s Football in a Global, Professional Era; Alex Culvin and Ali Bowes Section A. Emerging Professionalisation Chapter 2. Responsibility and Progress: The English Football Association's Professionalisation of the Women's Game; Beth Fielding-Lloyd and Donna Woodhouse Chapter 3. Obrigatoriedade and the Professionalisation of Women’s Football in Brazil; Mark Biram Chapter 4.Professional Women’s Football in Norway - A Field of Empowerment and Discrimination; Bente Ovedie Skogvang Chapter 5. On the Road to Empowerment? An Uneven Path to Professionalisation in Japanese Women’s Football; Elise Edwards Chapter 6. Women’s Football in the Arab Region: Local Perspectives and Global Challenges; Hussa K. Al-Khalifa Section B. Lived Experiences of Professionalisation Chapter 7. Gender and Football in Brazil: The Impact of the Paulistana over a Generation of Brazilian Women Players; Jorge Knijnik Chapter 8. Changing Tides or Freedom Fallacy? A Foucauldian Cautionary Reading of Women’s Professional Football’s Evolving Contexts; Luke Jones, Zoe Avner, Joseph Mills, and Simone Magill Chapter 9. Negotiating the Transition from Amateur to Semi-professional Football Status in the FA Women’s Championship; Ally Forbes, Kay Biscomb, and Jean Williams Chapter 10. Being ‘in’ and ‘on the field’: An Auto-ethnographic Reflection on Elite Women’s Football in Argentina; Gabriela Garton Chapter 11. Representation Matters: Race and the History of the England Women’s National Football Team; Jean Williams Section C. Commercialisation and Media Coverage Chapter 12. Power at Play – Women’s Football and Commercialisation as a Sociological Problem; Katie Liston Chapter 13. Equal Pay Debates in International Women’s Football; Ali Bowes, Alex Culvin, and Sarah Carrick Chapter 14. A New Age for Media Coverage of Women’s Sport? An Analysis of English Media Coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup; Kate Petty and Stacey Pope Chapter 15. ‘Pink Hair, Don’t Care’: A Print Media Analysis of Megan Rapinoe at the 2019 Women’s World Cup; Rachael Bullingham and Rory Magrath Chapter 16. (De)Weaponized for Change: How US Sport Nationalism Contributes to the Professionalisation of Women’s Sports and Positive Social Change; Kayla Cloud and Erica Tibbetts Chapter 17. Conclusion: Research Agendas for Professional Women’s Football; Alex Culvin and Ali Bowes

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Alex Culvin is Senior Lecturer in Sports Business at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Alex works in player and union relations at FIFPro, the global union of professional footballers, and is the chair of the Football Collective, a global network of football scholars. Ali Bowes is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Ali serves on the editorial boards of both Sociology of Sport Journal and Managing Sport and Leisure, and is on the board of the Football Collective.

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