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Moving Beyond the Image: Theorising 'Extreme' Female Bodies (2020)
Journal Article
Hockin-Boyers, H., Jamie, K., & Pope, S. (2020). Moving Beyond the Image: Theorising 'Extreme' Female Bodies. Women's Studies International Forum, 83, Article 102416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102416

Since their entry onto the competitive scene in 1977, female bodybuilders have been the subject of sustained debate among scholars from a range of disciplines. Within this body of literature, discourses are polarised and offer two opposing representa... Read More about Moving Beyond the Image: Theorising 'Extreme' Female Bodies.

Digital Pruning: Agency and Social Media Use as a Personal Political Project Among Female Weightlifters in Recovery from Eating Disorders (2020)
Journal Article
Hockin-Boyers, H., Pope, S., & Jamie, K. (2021). Digital Pruning: Agency and Social Media Use as a Personal Political Project Among Female Weightlifters in Recovery from Eating Disorders. New Media and Society, 23(8), 2345-2366. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820926503

In the past decade, a wealth of research has focused on women and social media. Typically assembled according to the logic of ‘risk’ and ‘exposure’, this extensive work tends to operate within a negative paradigm whereby women’s engagement with the d... Read More about Digital Pruning: Agency and Social Media Use as a Personal Political Project Among Female Weightlifters in Recovery from Eating Disorders.

Covid-19: Reflections on threat and uncertainty for the future of elite women’s football in England (2020)
Journal Article
Clarkson, B. G., Culvin, A., Pope, S., & Parry, K. D. (2022). Covid-19: Reflections on threat and uncertainty for the future of elite women’s football in England. Managing Sport and Leisure, 27(1-2), 50-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2020.1766377

This commentary offers an analysis of the implications of Covid-19 on the future of elite women’s football, with the intention of reflecting on and illuminating the threat and uncertainty facing the game. Topics covered include (1) organisational and... Read More about Covid-19: Reflections on threat and uncertainty for the future of elite women’s football in England.

A New Age for Media Coverage of Women’s Sport? An Analysis of English Media Coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup (2018)
Journal Article
Petty, K., & Pope, S. (2019). A New Age for Media Coverage of Women’s Sport? An Analysis of English Media Coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Sociology, 53(3), 486-502. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038518797505

This article examines English print media coverage of the England national women’s football (soccer) team during the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. It draws on a content analysis of five English national newspapers from 24 May to 14 August 2015. A wide... Read More about A New Age for Media Coverage of Women’s Sport? An Analysis of English Media Coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Introduction (2018)
Book Chapter
Pope, S., & Pfister, G. (2018). Introduction. In G. Pfister, & S. Pope (Eds.), Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man’s World (1-15). (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59025-1_1

In the introduction, Pope and Pfister discuss the rationale for the book. They argue there is a need to address the dearth of research on female fans and that new publications on female football players are necessary because of the recent rises in th... Read More about Introduction.

A Socio-Historical Account of Female Experiences of Football’s Golden Age in England (2018)
Book Chapter
Pope, S., & Williams, J. (2018). A Socio-Historical Account of Female Experiences of Football’s Golden Age in England. In G. Pfister, & S. Pope (Eds.), Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man’s World (157-184). (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59025-1_8

Pope and Williams argue that women’s experiences as fans have been largely marginalized in socio-historical research to date. But oral history accounts reveal a largely hidden history of active female sports fans. This chapter draws on interviews wit... Read More about A Socio-Historical Account of Female Experiences of Football’s Golden Age in England.

Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man’s World (2018)
Book
Pfister, G., & Pope, S. (Eds.). (2018). Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man’s World. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59025-1

This volume draws upon social science and historical approaches to provide insights into the world of women’s football and female fans. It gives an in-depth analysis of the development of the women’s game in different European countries and examines... Read More about Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man’s World.