Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces

Staking Their Claim

Yoko Kanemasu (University of the South Pacific, Fiji)

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English

Routledge
28 November 2024

Regional studies; Humanities; Cultural studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Sports & outdoor recreation

Series: Global Gender

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 sporting spaces as sites of infrapolitics intersected primarily by gender and also by other markers of inequality, including ethnicity, sexuality, class and geopolitics. Contrary to historical and contemporary representations of Pacific Island women as victims of gender injustice, it explores how these athletes and those who support them actively carve out space for their transformative agency.

Pacific IslandWomen and Contested Sporting Spaces: Staking Their Claim focuses on a region underexamined by sport or gender studies researchers and will be of key interest to scholars and students in Gender Studies, Sport Studies, Sociology and Pacific Studies as well as sport practitioners and policymakers.

By: Yoko Kanemasu (University of the South Pacific Fiji)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367704698
ISBN 10: 0367704692
Series: Global Gender
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 28 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 Introduction 2 Fiji Women’s Rugby: Resistance against All Odds 3 Athletic Indo-Fijian Women: Beyond Sporting Absence 4 Vanuatu Women’s Beach Volleyball: Subversive Stars in Alignment 5 Solomon Islands Women’s Soccer: Seizing the Moment for Change 6 Samoa Women’s Rugby: Working with ‘Culture’ 7 Conclusion

Yoko Kanemasu is Associate Professor in Sociology in the School of Law and Social Sciences in the University of the South Pacific.