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Female Fans of Men's Football (2016)
Book Chapter
Pope, S. (2016). Female Fans of Men's Football. In J. Hughson, K. Moore, R. Spaaij, & J. Maguire (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Football Studies. Routledge

Introduction Sport has historically been (and in many respects still is) a profoundly male preserve (Theberge, 1985). Arguably, for some male fans the football stadium represents one of the few spaces in today’s society where they can prove that they... Read More about Female Fans of Men's Football.

Policy for Physical Education and School Sport in England, 2003-2010: Vested Interests and Dominant Discourses (2015)
Journal Article
Jung, H., Pope, S., & Kirk, D. (2016). Policy for Physical Education and School Sport in England, 2003-2010: Vested Interests and Dominant Discourses. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 21(5), 501-516. https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2015.1050661

Background: The salience of physical education and school sport (PESS) in England changed dramatically in the 2000s in terms of central government investment and political interests. The government put in place the physical education, school sport an... Read More about Policy for Physical Education and School Sport in England, 2003-2010: Vested Interests and Dominant Discourses.

'It's Just Such a Class Thing': Rivalry and Class Distinction Between Female Fans of Men's Football and Rugby Union (2015)
Journal Article
Pope, S. (2015). 'It's Just Such a Class Thing': Rivalry and Class Distinction Between Female Fans of Men's Football and Rugby Union. Sociological Research Online, 20(2), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.3589

This article draws on 85 interviews with female fans of men's football and rugby union to explore sporting preferences and social class in one locale in Britain. Although it has been widely contended that social class is no longer a major source of p... Read More about 'It's Just Such a Class Thing': Rivalry and Class Distinction Between Female Fans of Men's Football and Rugby Union.

Female fan experiences and interpretations of the 1958 Munich air disaster, the 1966 World Cup finals and the rise of footballers as sexualised national celebrities (2014)
Journal Article
Pope, S. (2016). Female fan experiences and interpretations of the 1958 Munich air disaster, the 1966 World Cup finals and the rise of footballers as sexualised national celebrities. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 51(7), 848-866. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690214558284

The experiences of female sports fans have largely been neglected in academic research to date with socio-historical accounts focusing almost exclusively on male fans. Through an excavation of the sporting histories of female football fans this artic... Read More about Female fan experiences and interpretations of the 1958 Munich air disaster, the 1966 World Cup finals and the rise of footballers as sexualised national celebrities.

Female Football Fans and Gender Performance (2014)
Book Chapter
Pope, S. (2014). Female Football Fans and Gender Performance. In E. Anderson, & J. Hargreaves (Eds.), Routledge handbook of sport, gender and sexuality (245-253). Routledge

The Role of Physical Education and Other Formative Experiences of Three Generations of Female Football Fans (2014)
Journal Article
Pope, S., & Kirk, D. (2014). The Role of Physical Education and Other Formative Experiences of Three Generations of Female Football Fans. Sport, Education and Society, 19(2), 223-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.646982

The experiences of female sports fans have been largely marginalised in academic research to date and little research has examined the formative sporting experiences of female spectators. This article draws on 51 semi-structured interviews with three... Read More about The Role of Physical Education and Other Formative Experiences of Three Generations of Female Football Fans.

'There are Some Daft People Out There!': exploring female sport and media fandoms (2014)
Journal Article
Pope, S. (2014). 'There are Some Daft People Out There!': exploring female sport and media fandoms. Sport in Society, 17(2), 254-269. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2013.828708

Female sports fans have been largely marginalized in academic research, but this article makes one contribution towards changing this relative invisibility. Drawing on a ‘grounded theory’ approach, 85 semi-structured interviews were conducted with fe... Read More about 'There are Some Daft People Out There!': exploring female sport and media fandoms.

“The Love of My Life”: The Meaning and Importance of Sport for Female Fans (2013)
Journal Article
Pope, S. (2013). “The Love of My Life”: The Meaning and Importance of Sport for Female Fans. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 37(2), 176-195. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723512455919

Academic research has typically focused upon the importance of sports fandom for men, and there is also a lack of comparative work which examines fans of different sports. This article aims to address this omission by exploring the meaning and import... Read More about “The Love of My Life”: The Meaning and Importance of Sport for Female Fans.