We Can Be Athletic and Feminine, But Do We Want To? Challenging Hegemonic Femininity in Women's Sport

By V. Krane. 2001

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Living the Paradox: Female Athletes Negotiate Femininity and Muscularity (2004, background): “Within the context of the masculine domain of sport, sportswomen are expected to perform hegemonic femininity while distancing themselves from behavior perceived as masculine (Choi, 2000; Krane, 2001a).”
Perspectives of Women College Athletes on Sport and Gender (2008, background): “Despite suggestions that gender categories will break down and continue to blur in a postmodern society (Firat 1994), Laberge and Albert (1999) conceptualized sport as a structure ordered according to a dualistic understanding of gender that may continue to constrain sport participation for girls an”
Whatever it Takes: Health Compromising Behaviors in Female Athletes (2005, background): “Although the muscular female physique has become chic, a highly muscled successful female athlete still is accused of using steroids (Davis & Delano, 1992) or being labeled lesbian (Krane, 2001).”
Leisure, Stress, and Coping: The Sport Participation of Collegiate Student-Athletes (2003, background): “Krane (2001) contends that women have been socialized to act in a gender appropriate manner, a manner reproducing notions of hegemonic femininity (i.e., being pretty, graceful, non-aggressive), and that if women step outside of what society deems to be “appropriate” behavior for women they are…”