Masculinities, Sport, and Emotions

Lilleaas, Ulla-Britt

doi:10.1177/1097184x07299329

Cited by 31 publications

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“…Our study goes beyond this and suggests that playing football facilitated a mental and physical closeness between the men, which permitted intimacy, mutual caring, and sharing of concerns and experiences related to disease and treatment. This finding is in line with previous research identifying sport and physical activity as a means of dealing with stress and concerns and of promoting exchange of feelings and experiences in men (Lilleaas, ). At the same time, the atmosphere on the pitch and in the locker room provided an environment in which the men could escape from concerns about the disease.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

“All boys and men can play football”: A qualitative investigation of recreational football in prostate cancer patients

Bruun

Krustrup

Hornstrup

et al. 2014

Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

110

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Evidence is accumulating that exercise-based rehabilitation improves physical capacity and quality of life in cancer survivors. However, recruitment and persistence of male cancer patients in rehabilitation and physical activity are low and novel health promotion strategies are warranted. The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the meaning of recreational football as a team and interaction-oriented health-promoting activity in men with prostate cancer (n = 26). Qualitative data were collected through six focus group interviews (n = 4-6) and 20 h of participant observations. The two data sets were analyzed using framework analysis. The analysis produced 11 subthemes that were structured into three overarching themes: (a) motivational drivers; (b) united in sport; and (c) confirmation of own capacity. The findings indicated that participants regarded football as a welcome opportunity to regain control and acquire a sense of responsibility for own health without assuming the patient role, and football training legitimized and promoted mutual caring behavior in a male-oriented context. In conclusion, the study suggests that football, due to its cultural representation of masculine ideals, may be a potent and unique strategy for increasing recruitment and adherence to physical activity in prostate cancer patients.Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed malignancy in men (Siegel et al., 2012) and due to early diagnosis and continued advances in multi-modality treatment options, the number of prostate survivors continues to increase. Approximately 50% of men diagnosed with prostate cancer undergo androgen deprivation treatment (ADT) at some point, either in combination with radiotherapy with curative intent or as continuous palliative treatment for disseminated disease (Mottet et al., 2011). Although ADT contributes to improved life expectancy, it is also associated with significant adverse effects, including impaired physical (Galvao et al., 2009), psychosocial distress, sexual dysfunction, and body feminization (Elliott et al., 2010), which may reduce quality of life and may be perceived as a threat to masculinity (Hoyt et al., 2013). Evidence is accumulating that physical activity has a beneficial impact on physical capacity and quality of life in prostate cancer patients (Galvao et al., 2010) and recent epidemiological research suggests that regular, moderateintensity physical activity may have a positive effect on disease progression (Richman et al., 2011) and survival . However, less than half of prostate cancer patients are meeting the recommended levels for physical activity (41.9%) (Chipperfield et al., 2013) and unlike other male cancer patients (e.g., colorectal cancer patients and lung cancer patients), men with prostate cancer do not spontaneously change health behavior in a beneficial way following diagnosis (Karlsen et al., 2012). In addition, male cancer survivors in general are underrepresented in the cancer rehabilitation research (15% men vs 85% women) (Hoybye et al., 2008)...

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

“All boys and men can play football”: A qualitative investigation of recreational football in prostate cancer patients

Bruun

Krustrup

Hornstrup

et al. 2014

Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

110

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“…The male physical body idealmuscular, strong, and hardsignifies many of manhood's sociocultural attributes such as power, self-control, and readiness for competition (Kimmel 2013, 228;Lilleaas 2007). This type of body is in many ways in line with the since long faded work introducing father discourse.…”

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confidence: 99%

Hero shots: involved fathers conquering new discursive territory in consumer culture

Molander

Kleppe

Östberg

2018

Consumption Markets & Culture

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In this paper, we explore how visual expressions of culture offer new discursive territory within which consumer cultural ideals can be negotiated on a global scale. Through a critical visual analysis of the revelatory case Swedish Dads, we find hero shots depicting involved fathers where children's needs and the hermetic confines of the home take center stage, as opposed to the traditional fatherhood ideals portrayed in western contemporary advertising, media, and popular culture. We demonstrate how the Swedish state's gender ideology was encoded into a communicative event in the form of hero shots and subsequently dispersed by visual consumers as well as political and commercial stakeholders pushing this particular agenda and/or capitalizing on its tendencies. This in such a way that the event conquered new discursive territory fostering new types of consumer cultural negotiations on fatherhood ideals also in other cultural settings.

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“…Masculinity in relation to sport has received a good deal of attention from researchers in the past, and it seems likely that the foundations of the association between sport and certain forms of masculinity may be laid down during boys' school lives (Messner 1990). Such masculinity includes men's reluctance to disclose personal problems, particularly to those in their professional sporting environment (Lilleaas 2010), as illustrated by our participants.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 84%

‘You shut up and go along with it’: an interpretative phenomenological study of former professional footballers’ experiences of addiction

Brownrigg

Burr

Bridger

et al. 2017

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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Research evidence suggests that professional players across a variety of sports may be at greater risk of developing addictions and other mental illnesses than the general population, both during and post-career. In this paper, we report findings from a larger project on the experiences of career transition in UK professional footballers that provide some insight into this. Using an Interpretative Phenomenological approach, four ex-professional footballers who were attending the Sporting Chance Clinic for help with problems concerning alcohol and gambling were interviewed in depth about their experiences. Focussing on issues the players perceived to be relevant to their addictions, the data were analysed thematically, drawing on Van Manen's phenomenological method, and individual case histories were also produced. The analysis suggested that club culture was key to understanding the players' difficulties; a harsh, unsupportive psychological environment combined with expectations of manliness resulted in a culture of silence in the face of personal difficulties. Relationships within the culture of profootball were fraught with anxiety and distrust, leaving the players feeling unable and unwilling to disclose their problems and feeling used and unvalued by their managers. The lack of supportive relationships in their clubs also resulted in loneliness and social withdrawal for the 2 participants. We conclude with a number of recommendations for the governing bodies in professional football, clubs and individual players.

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Masculinities, Sport, and Emotions

Cited by 31 publications

References 3 publications

“All boys and men can play football”: A qualitative investigation of recreational football in prostate cancer patients

“All boys and men can play football”: A qualitative investigation of recreational football in prostate cancer patients

Hero shots: involved fathers conquering new discursive territory in consumer culture

‘You shut up and go along with it’: an interpretative phenomenological study of former professional footballers’ experiences of addiction

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