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Professor Stacey Pope's Outputs (45)

204 Physical activity insecurity in children and young people at risk of marginalisation: navigating an equitable and safe research experience using co-production principles (2024)
Journal Article
Dodd-Reynolds, C., Hall, S., Crowder, M., Goodyear, V., Griffin, N., Fairbrother, H., Pope, S., & Scott, S. (in press). 204 Physical activity insecurity in children and young people at risk of marginalisation: navigating an equitable and safe research experience using co-production principles. European Journal of Public Health, 34(Supplement_2), ckae114.097. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae114.097

Purpose: We recently proposed a new conceptualisation for physical activity (PA) insecurity as ‘a limited or restricted ability to be active, reinforced by worries and experiences of feeling uncomfortable, emotionally or physically unsafe’ (Dodd-Reyn... Read More about 204 Physical activity insecurity in children and young people at risk of marginalisation: navigating an equitable and safe research experience using co-production principles.

Women’s football fandom and stadium attendance in Iran: a form of everyday resistance? (2024)
Journal Article
Phipps, C., Afrouzeh, A., Pope, S., Pourkiani, M., & Boroumand, M. R. (online). Women’s football fandom and stadium attendance in Iran: a form of everyday resistance?. World Leisure Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2024.2406487

To date, there is a scarcity of research examining women’s leisure lives in Iran, particularly their football fandom. In this study, we examine the development and negotiation of women’s fan identities, their experience of stadium attendance and alte... Read More about Women’s football fandom and stadium attendance in Iran: a form of everyday resistance?.

Intuitive tracking: Blending competing approaches to exercise and eating (2024)
Journal Article
Hockin‐Boyers, H., Jamie, K., & Pope, S. (online). Intuitive tracking: Blending competing approaches to exercise and eating. Sociology of Health & Illness, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13821

Under the conditions of neo‐liberal individual responsibilisation, self‐tracking has become the predominant model of health management. More recently, though, intuition‐based approaches to exercise and eating are also gaining traction. These two appr... Read More about Intuitive tracking: Blending competing approaches to exercise and eating.

Stability and Change in Sports Fandom Over Time: A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Women's Professional Soccer Fandom (2024)
Journal Article
Allison, R., Kossakowski, R., & Pope, S. (2024). Stability and Change in Sports Fandom Over Time: A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Women's Professional Soccer Fandom. Sociology of Sport Journal, https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2024-0036

Scholars have recognized that sports fandom is not static, but temporal and fluid. However, little longitudinal research has traced the development of fandom over time. This analysis makes a new contribution to the sociology of fandom and women’s spo... Read More about Stability and Change in Sports Fandom Over Time: A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Women's Professional Soccer Fandom.

The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus (2024)
Journal Article
Naidu-Young, S., May, A., Pope, S., & Gérard, S. (2024). The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus. Sociology of Sport Journal, 41(3), 255–266. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2023-0094

This article is the first to examine experiences of women with leadership roles in the U.K. Higher Education sport sector. We carried out detailed interviews with women leaders. We utilized Bourdieu’s model of habitus, capital, and field; Acker’s con... Read More about The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus.

‘They are doing it because they love it’: U.S. and English fan perceptions of women footballers as ‘role models’ (2024)
Journal Article
Allison, R., Culvin, A., & Pope, S. (2024). ‘They are doing it because they love it’: U.S. and English fan perceptions of women footballers as ‘role models’. Sport in Society, 27(10), 1529-1548 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2024.2304230

We draw from 102 interviews with American and English adults who attended the 2019 Women’s World Cup to examine how fans perceive women footballers as ‘role models’, with attention to the operations of gender ideology. Despite the recent professional... Read More about ‘They are doing it because they love it’: U.S. and English fan perceptions of women footballers as ‘role models’.

Gender Equality in the ‘Next Stage’ of the ‘New Age’? Content and Fan Perceptions of English Media Coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup (2023)
Journal Article
Pope, S. (2023). Gender Equality in the ‘Next Stage’ of the ‘New Age’? Content and Fan Perceptions of English Media Coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Sociology of Sport Journal, 41(1), 27–38. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2022-0195

This article offers an original contribution by examining both the quantity and quality of English print media coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup and how fans perceive and respond to this coverage. It is the first longitudinal analysis of me... Read More about Gender Equality in the ‘Next Stage’ of the ‘New Age’? Content and Fan Perceptions of English Media Coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

The impact of Fallon Sherrock and the increasing prominence of women within professional darts events: a call for future research (2023)
Journal Article
Davis, L., Phipps, C., & Pope, S. (2023). The impact of Fallon Sherrock and the increasing prominence of women within professional darts events: a call for future research. Managing Sport and Leisure, https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2023.2229328

This positioning paper is a call to action for future research regarding the roles of women in the male-dominated sport of professional darts. Women have been present at darts events for over 80 years; however, the success of Englishwomen Fallon Sher... Read More about The impact of Fallon Sherrock and the increasing prominence of women within professional darts events: a call for future research.

Women Sports Fans (2022)
Book Chapter
Jones, K., Pope, S., & Toffoletti, K. (2022). Women Sports Fans. In D. Sarver Coombs, & A. C. Osborne (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Sports Fans. Routledge

An institutional analysis of gender (in)equalities, covid-19 and governance of elite women’s football in Australia, England and the USA (2022)
Journal Article
Clarkson, B. G., Parry, K. D., Culvin, A., & Pope, S. (2022). An institutional analysis of gender (in)equalities, covid-19 and governance of elite women’s football in Australia, England and the USA. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 12(4), 459-478. https://doi.org/10.1108/sbm-01-2021-0004

Purpose: Women’s football faces an existential threat from covid-19. Using case studies, we explore the covid-19 responses of three highly-ranked national football associations (Australia, England, and the USA) and their professional women’s football... Read More about An institutional analysis of gender (in)equalities, covid-19 and governance of elite women’s football in Australia, England and the USA.

Men’s Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a ‘New Age’ of UK Women’s Sport (2022)
Journal Article
Pope, S., Williams, J., & Cleland, J. (2022). Men’s Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a ‘New Age’ of UK Women’s Sport. Sociology, 56(4), 730-748. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211063359

This article offers an original contribution as the first to focus empirically on men football fans’ attitudes towards women’s sport in a ‘new age’ of UK media coverage, in which women’s sport has experienced a significantly increased and more positi... Read More about Men’s Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a ‘New Age’ of UK Women’s Sport.

‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England (2022)
Journal Article
Williams, J., Pope, S., & Cleland, J. (2023). ‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England. Sport in Society, 26(2), 285-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2021.2021509

Women’s sport, and perhaps especially women’s football, in England has enjoyed much greater media visibility and support over the past decade. But we still know relatively little about the response of fans of men’s football to the rise of the women’s... Read More about ‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England.

Becoming Fans: Socialization and Motivations of Fans of the England and U.S. Women’s National Football Teams (2021)
Journal Article
Allison, R., & Pope, S. (2022). Becoming Fans: Socialization and Motivations of Fans of the England and U.S. Women’s National Football Teams. Sociology of Sport Journal, 39(3), 287-297. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2021-0036

The professionalization, commercialization, and mediatization of women’s football have opened new opportunities for fan attachments, engagements, and identities. Yet limited empirical research has addressed how or why fandom develops for women’s foot... Read More about Becoming Fans: Socialization and Motivations of Fans of the England and U.S. Women’s National Football Teams.

Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers? (2021)
Journal Article
Gemar, A., & Pope, S. (2022). Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 57(4), 552-574. https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902211026472

Women sports fans have been substantially understudied compared to their male counterparts. While a growing number of studies seek to redress this, there remains a stark absence of quantitative approaches that would allow investigations regarding pat... Read More about Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?.

On the Periphery: Examining Women’s Exclusion from Core Leadership Roles in the “Extremely Gendered” Organization of Men’s Club Football in England (2021)
Journal Article
Bryan, A., Pope, S., & Rankin-Wright, A. J. (2021). On the Periphery: Examining Women’s Exclusion from Core Leadership Roles in the “Extremely Gendered” Organization of Men’s Club Football in England. Gender & Society, 35(6), 940-970. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432211046318

This paper frames men’s club football as an “extremely gendered” organization to explain the underrepresentation of women leaders within the industry. By analyzing women’s leadership work over a 30-year period, we find that women’s inclusion has been... Read More about On the Periphery: Examining Women’s Exclusion from Core Leadership Roles in the “Extremely Gendered” Organization of Men’s Club Football in England.

The Price of Success: Equal Pay and the US Women’s National Soccer Team (2021)
Journal Article
Culvin, A., Bowes, A., Carrick, S., & Pope, S. (2022). The Price of Success: Equal Pay and the US Women’s National Soccer Team. Soccer and Society, 23(8), 920-931. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2021.1977280

This commentary offers an analysis of the implications of the US Women’ National team Collective Action lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation. The players filed the lawsuit based on two grounds: first, that the US Soccer Federation violated the Eq... Read More about The Price of Success: Equal Pay and the US Women’s National Soccer Team.

‘I do worry that football will become over-feminized’ : ambiguities in fan reflections on the gender order in men’s professional football in the United Kingdom (2020)
Journal Article
Cleland, J., Pope, S., & Williams, J. (2020). ‘I do worry that football will become over-feminized’ : ambiguities in fan reflections on the gender order in men’s professional football in the United Kingdom. Sociology of Sport Journal, 37(4), 366-375. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2019-0060

This article draws on the responses of 2,347 football fans (male = 83.4%; female = 16.6%) collected via an online survey from September 2015 to January 2016 regarding the position of women (as fans, coaches, referees, journalists, board members, and... Read More about ‘I do worry that football will become over-feminized’ : ambiguities in fan reflections on the gender order in men’s professional football in the United Kingdom.

#gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders (2020)
Journal Article
Hockin-Boyers, H., Pope, S., & Jamie, K. (2020). #gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(1), 94-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2020.1836511

In this article, we explore transformation photos on Instagram as ‘digital artefacts’ that can inform understandings of eating disorder recovery in the context of sport, exercise and health. Transformation photos are two images (from different time p... Read More about #gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

'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.

“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.

Out in the Field (2008)
Journal Article
Pope, S. (2008). Out in the Field. Sociological Review, 17(4),