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The new revised and expanded edition of a pioneering book, which has become a reference and winner of the Prix féminin Sport & Littérature in 2017. Both an actor and an observer, because she is a sociologist, Béatrice Barbusse delivers a personal, committed and documented document, to analyze the anchoring of sexism in sport and also show the changes underway.
"Go back to doing the dishes and knitting"; "Let them take care of their pots and pans..."; "It looks like a pregnant woman's shot"... So many "little phrases", too often repeated in the world of sport, where machismo and sexism seem to reign, if not as masters, at least in a form of natural connivance.
From ordinary sexism, affecting both women and men, to sexual violence, which is now increasingly denounced, from the question of a "masculine nature" of sport to that of the femininity of sportswomen and sports actresses, to which they themselves maintain a relationship not devoid of ambiguities, the former handball player and sociologist Béatrice Barbusse deciphers and analyses step by step the reality of the anchoring of sexism in this environment. Drawing on concrete cases and her own experience, she intends to free up a voice and also highlights the changes underway as well as the path still to be taken for greater equality.
20 x 14 cms, softback, 381 pages.
2022
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