scholarly journals Challenging the nice girl

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 212-216
Author(s):  
Louise Nealon
Keyword(s):  
Women In Sport ◽  
Irish Women

Louise Nealon is a writer from county Kildare. She plays corner back for her local camogie club, Cappagh GAA. This piece based on a presentation given at a conference entitled, Sidelines, Touchlines and Hemlines: Irish Women in Sport, in Dundalk County Museum on February 2020.

Physiologic Considerations for Women in Sport

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte F. Sanborn ◽  
Catherine M. Jankowski
Keyword(s):  
Women In Sport

‘The well-known, old, but still unbeaten track’: Women Poets and Irish Periodical Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Mulhall
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Double Bind ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Substantial Body ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Irish Women ◽  
Under Construction

While neglected Irish male poets of the mid century have seen some recuperation in recent decades, the work of Irish women poets still languishes in obscurity. A growing body of scholarship has identified the need to bring critical attention to bear on this substantial body of work. In this essay I explore the positioning of Irish women poets in mid-century periodical culture, to flesh out the ways in which the terms of this ‘forgetting’ are already established within the overwhelmingly masculinist homosocial suppositions and idioms that characterized contemporary debates about the proper lineage and aesthetic norms for the national literary culture that was then under construction. Within the terms set by those debates, the woman writer was caught in the double bind that afflicted any woman wishing to engage in a public, politicized forum in post-revolutionary Ireland. While women poets engage in sporadic or oblique terms with such literary and cultural debates, more often their voices are absent from these dominant discourses – the logic of this absence has continued in the occlusion of these women poets from the national poetic canon.

Gendering inequalities: the case of Irish women

Paragraph ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
SABINA SHARKEY
Keyword(s):  
Irish Women

Fat as a Floating Signifier

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-163
Author(s):  
Sabrina Strings
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Irish Women ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Fat Phobia ◽  
Fat Stigma

Studies on the development of fat stigma in the United States often consider gender, but not race. This chapter adds to the literature on the significance of race in the propagation of fat phobia. I investigate representations of voluptuousness among “white” Anglo-Saxon and German women, as well as “black” Irish women between 1830 and 1890—a time period during which the value of a curvy physique was hotly contested—performing a discourse analysis of thirty-three articles from top newspapers and magazines. I found that the rounded forms of Anglo-Saxon and German women were generally praised as signs of health and beauty. The fat Irish, by contrast, were depicted as grotesque. Building on the work of Stuart Hall, I conclude that fat was a “floating signifier” of race and national belonging. That is, rather than being universally lauded or condemned, the value attached to fatness was related to the race of its possessor.

Injury risk profile of amateur Irish women soccer players and players’ opinions on risk factors and prevention strategies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahani A. Alahmad ◽  
Audrey C. Tierney ◽  
Roisin M. Cahalan ◽  
Nassr S. Almaflehi ◽  
Amanda M. Clifford
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Risk Profile ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Irish Women

Putting gender back on the agenda: women in sport pedagogy

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-113
Author(s):  
Kelly Knez ◽  
Torun Mattsson
Keyword(s):  
Sport Pedagogy ◽  
Women In Sport

The Depiction and Characterization of Women in Sport Film

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demetrius W. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Title Ix ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Women In Sport ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Notable Increase ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Female involvement and accomplishments within sport have reached unprecedented levels. This has been due, in part, to the passing and enforcement of Title IX. Yet, few films have embraced female achievement in sport as indicated through their depiction as heroines (ìsheroesî). The author analyzed the salient similarities and differences between the depiction of women in sport theme feature films (sport films) before and after Title IX. Emphasis was placed on the aggregate number of sport films, type and content, and perceived social and cultural significance of female depictions. Content analysis and archival research methodologies were employed. These included the systematic examination and coding of all identified American sport films highlighting heroines from 1930-1999 (N = 41), as well as the analysis of critical reviews of the sport films which were unavailable for viewing. Based upon results there has been a notable increase in the depiction of women as heroines in sport films after Title IX. However, like their predecessors, women’s athletic prowess was trivialized in many of the films by their comedic themes and attentions to heterosexual attractiveness. These findings, as well as others, raise intriguing questions regarding the messages communicated through sport films.

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