Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces: Staking Their Claim

by Yoko Kanemasu

Book Overview

This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces - in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise - as a prism to explore grassroots women's engagement with heavily entrenched postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy.

Based on primary research conducted in Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, the book investigates contested...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C87GY2X7
• ISBN13: 9780367704698
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"