Gender, Play, and Identity: A Longitudinal Study of Structure and Agency in Female Football Fandom

Cornel Sandvoss; Emily Ball

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-59025-1

Gender, Play, and Identity: A Longitudinal Study of Structure and Agency in Female Football Fandom

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Abstract

Through the longitudinal study of female football fans from the mid-1990s to 2015, this chapter explores the interplay between gender, identity media and football. Documenting interpersonal and intrapersonal dimensions of fandom, including shifting fan practices and motivations vis-à-vis technological and industrial change, the chapter highlights the role of both structure and agency in female fans’ identity formations and articulations. In reference to Judith Butler’s work on gender performativity, the chapter’s longitudinal approach to the study of female football fans reveals gradual qualitative change overlooked in previous work. While reiterating that participation does not equal gender equality and football culture continues to operate through masculine hegemonic frames, the chapter acknowledges the capacity and significance of female participants’ challenges to binary perceptions of ‘essence fabrication.’

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Female Football Players and Fans
Subtitle of host publication	Intruding into a Man's World
Editors	Gertrud Pfister, Stacey Pope
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	279-307
ISBN (Print)	978-1-137-59025-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59025-1
Publication status	Published - 28 Feb 2018

Publication series

Name	Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
Publisher	Palgrave MacMillan
Volume	8

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Cornel Sandvoss

C.Sandvoss@hud.ac.uk

Department of Media and Performance - Professor and Head of Department (Media Journalism and Film)
School of Music, Humanities and Media
Centre for Participatory Culture - Director

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Sandvoss, C., & Ball, E. (2018). Gender, Play, and Identity: A Longitudinal Study of Structure and Agency in Female Football Fandom. In G. Pfister, & S. Pope (Eds.), Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man's World (pp. 279-307). (Football Research in an Enlarged Europe; Vol. 8). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59025-1

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Gender, Play, and Identity : A Longitudinal Study of Structure and Agency in Female Football Fandom. / Sandvoss, Cornel; Ball, Emily.

Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man's World. ed. / Gertrud Pfister; Stacey Pope. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 279-307 (Football Research in an Enlarged Europe; Vol. 8).

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