All Outputs (3)

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.

'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 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.