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Professor Stacey Pope's Outputs (9)

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

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 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.

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