‘Holding a Gun at Our Heads’: The Sports Council's Role in Merger–Takeovers of Women's Sport, 1985–2000

Nicholson, Rafaelle

doi:10.1108/978-1-80043-206-220221004

Gender Equity in UK Sport Leadership and Governance 2022

DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80043-206-220221004

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‘Holding a Gun at Our Heads’: The Sports Council's Role in Merger–Takeovers of Women's Sport, 1985–2000

Rafaelle Nicholson¹

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This article draws on Goffman's (1990) work Stigma to provide a critical perspective on how elite male players manage their identity in a 'female sport'. Following interviews with players from an all-male netball team in London, England, we critically discuss the different strategies that male netballers use to construct and manage their stigmatised identity(ies), through a variety of stages and strategies associated with stigma management over time, these include; Passing, Group Alignment, and Normalisation, strategies which change over time. The article highlights how the individual strategies for stigma management adopted by the male players are a consequence of wider gender relations in sport and the ways in which most sports continue to be organised according to sex segregation. The men in this study experience stigma for playing netball because it is perceived as a sport for women, by exploring the experiences of male netballers it emphasises how the continued gender binary approach to sport continues to create stigma for male and female athletes.

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In this article, we adopt a critical sociological perspective to understanding gender relations and cricket, through the lens of The Hundred – a new, short-form tournament, described by the England and Wales Cricket Board as being part of its long-term commitment to making cricket a gender-equal sport. The Hundred is the first sporting tournament in the world which, from the outset, featured fully aligned competitions for both men's and women's teams, including equal prize money, but not equal pay, which the recent Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket condemned. Drawing on concepts of professionalisation as a gendered process we discuss data from interviews with 33 people working in cricket to consider how gender relations continue to impact opportunities for women in cricket. This article further supports the need to conceptualise professionalisation in sport as gendered by considering the ways The Hundred facilitates opportunities for men's and women's cricket differently.

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‘Holding a Gun at Our Heads’: The Sports Council's Role in Merger–Takeovers of Women's Sport, 1985–2000

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

‘Do full-grown men really play netball?’ Stigma and men’s experiences of playing for an elite London netball team

‘Do full-grown men really play netball?’ Stigma and men’s experiences of playing for an elite London netball team

A review of research on mergers of male and female national sporting organisations (NSOs)

The Hundred: A sociological analysis of gender relations and the (semi-) professionalisation of women's cricket in England

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