Nationalism, Sports and Gender in Finnish Sports Journalism in the Early Twentieth Century

Tervo, Mervi

doi:10.1080/09663690120111609

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“…Crouch, 1999;Aitchison et al, 2000), little geographic scholarship on sport contends with sport spaces as they are implicated in social relations. Rather, this literature has been largely limited to descriptive accounts of the relationship between sport facilities and urban environments (Raitz, 1995;Bale, 1999); analyses of sport landscapes as reflective and productive of national identity (Bale, 1994); and examinations of sport landscapes as spectacles through which national identity is performed (Tervo, 2001;Edensor, 2002). Cumulatively, this lack of attention to spatiality in sport landscapes has the effect of maintaining an assumption that these sites are insignificant.…”

Section: Contested Spaces Of Women's Basketball 199mentioning

confidence: 98%

Liberty for All? Contested spaces of women's basketball

Muller

2007

Gender, Place & Culture

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The Women's National Basketball Association is a professional women's basketball league that is notable for constructing a heteronormative 'family friendly' selfimage while maintaining a sizable following of lesbian fans. This article examines this apparent contradiction through two case studies: a kiss-in protest by a group of New York WNBA fans, Lesbians for Liberty, and experiences by Minnesota Lynx lesbian fans of the marketing tactics and daily practices that regulate WNBA game spaces. By highlighting the socio-spatiality of the WNBA venue, it becomes clear how heteronormativity is naturalized, as well as accepted and resisted by lesbian fans in both New York and Minnesota. An overt act of resistance, however, failed to encourage the WNBA to reconsider its policies: the Liberty kiss-in, by situating lesbians as a counterpublic, foreclosed the range of attitudes held by lesbian fans. Moreover, as Minnesota Lynx fans demonstrate, WNBA spaces feel 'safe enough' to many lesbian fans. As a result, there remains a contest over the meanings and practices that define WNBA landscapes. To date, however, normative heterosexuality has contained the presence and visibility of the lesbian fan.

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Section: Contested Spaces Of Women's Basketball 199mentioning

confidence: 98%

Liberty for All? Contested spaces of women's basketball

Muller

2007

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…Since 2000, the journal has published articles that examine a range of issues, including the uneasy masculine spaces constructed through the work of the charitable 'Big Brothers' organisation in Canada (Hopkins, 2000); the (re)construction of oppressive gender relations in Brisbane, Australia's heavy metal music scene (Krenske & Mckay, 2000); the relationship between the (masculinist) state, masculinity and policing in the USA (Herbert, 2001); the historical origins of a localised gender division of labour found in Burkina Faso (Freidberg, 2001); the construction of masculine identities in Irvine California based on perceptions of women as fearful and endangered (Day, 2001); the connections between sports, gender (especially masculinity), nation and class in Finland during the period before the Second World War (Tervo, 2001); the relationship between masculinity, (dis)ability and British colonial discourse in Africa, circa 1929 (Myers, 2002); and white, working-class men's sense of themselves as masculine workers in the context of debates emphasising a growing 'crisis' of masculinity in the UK (McDowell, 2002;also see McDowell, 2000).…”

Section: Early 2000smentioning

confidence: 99%

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2003

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“…Van Ingen 2003; Vertinsky and Bale 2004), but their insights have rarely been taken up within geographic analyses of sport spaces (one notable exception is Waitt 2003). Rather, geographic literature on sport has been largely limited to descriptive accounts of the relationship between sport facilities and urban environments (Bale 1999;Raitz 1995); analyses of sport landscapes as reflective and productive of national identity (Bale 1994); and examinations of sport landscapes as spectacles through which national identity is performed (Edensor 2002;Tervo 2001). By examining the sociospatiality of WNBA game spaces, then, it is possible to understand how this sport-space is produced and consumed by corporate marketers and lesbian fans.…”

Section: Wnba Spacesmentioning

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‘Lesbian community’ in Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) spaces

Muller

2007

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper explores the investment in the discursive and spatial construct of 'lesbian community'. This 'community' is identifiable through the social spaces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), where sport and community are connected descriptively and interpretively. To do so, this paper discursively examines fan comments that define WNBA spaces as sites of community. This conversation is situated within the material and discursive context of these spaces, which are continuously remapped as heteronormative by the WNBA. Consequently, this paper concludes that uses of 'lesbian community' discourse within heteronormatively coded spaces points to a key strategy of creating safe spaces in an oppressive social climate. Moreover, 'community' discourse can be read as an assertion of empowerment in a time and place when lesbian spaces have been integrated and sometimes dissolved into the urban landscape, and when there is no clearly identifiable 'lesbian space'.

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Nationalism, Sports and Gender in Finnish Sports Journalism in the Early Twentieth Century

Cited by 26 publications

References 9 publications

Liberty for All? Contested spaces of women's basketball

Liberty for All? Contested spaces of women's basketball

Placing Masculinities and Geography

‘Lesbian community’ in Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) spaces

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