tailieunhanh - Ebook Sport and Gender Identities: Masculinities, Femininities and Sexualities (Routledge Critical Studies in Sport S): Part 2

(BQ) This book will be of particular interest to students and academics working in sport studies, leisure studies, gender studies, queer and sexuality studies, social and cultural geography, and sociology. | Chapter 7 Gender sexuality and queer theory in sport Corey W. Johnson and Beth Kivel Introduction Why struggle for liberation in the context of leisure and sport research Usually the argument for ending the marginalization discrimination and violence enacted toward sexual minorities in leisure and sport is enough to justify a need for such work. However the complex tensions raised in our critique of the leisure and sport studies literature on lesbian and gay people has changed how we think about emancipation for sexual minorities and sexual majorities for that matter . This is not to say that we do not believe we can strive for equality and first-class citizenship rights for sexual minorities through institutional policies and or the effective training of leisure service professionals . Rather tensions located in our examination of the research literature on this issue point to Vaid s 1995 assertion that the mainstreaming of lesbian gay culture may have yielded a better cultural and political life for lesbians gay men but that those improvements are merely shifts in discourse and nothing more than a virtual equality. Consequently we suggest the use of Queer as both theory and practice for transforming the oppressive marginalizing structures of leisure and sport as a means of both subverting the privilege and entitlement earned through heterosexuality and masculinity and for questioning the heteronormative behaviours which function to maintain heterosexuality s dominance. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce a theoretical perspective that can broaden our thinking about leisure sport and sexual identity that shifts us away from a narrow social psychological commitment in the study of leisure and sport behaviour in relation to sexual identity toward a more critical sociological analysis that problematizes the rigid and mutually exclusive categories of identity that organize contemporary social science research including leisure and sport studies. We believe .