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Professor Stacey Pope's Outputs (45)

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.

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.