‘I don't think I can catch it’: women, confidence and responsibility in football coach education

FIELDING‐LLOYD, Beth and MEÂN, Lindsey (2011). ‘I don't think I can catch it’: women, confidence and responsibility in football coach education. Soccer and Society, 12 (3), 345-364.

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Abstract

Whilst women’s participation in sport continues to increase, their presence remains ideologically challenging given the significance of sport for the construction of gendered identities. As a hegmonically masculine institution, leadership roles across sport remain male-dominated and the entry of women into positions of authority (such as coaching) routinely contested. But in powerful male-typed sports, like football, women’s participation remains particularly challenging. Consequently, constructions of gender inequity in coaching were explored at a regional division of the English Football Association through unstructured interviews and coaching course observation. Using critical discourse analysis we identified the consistent re/production of women as unconfident in their own skills and abilities, and the framing of women themselves as responsible for the gendered inequities in football coaching. Women were thereby strategically positioned as deservedly on the periphery of the football category,whilst the organization was positioned as progressive and liberal.

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Centre for Sport and Exercise Science
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2011.568102
Page Range:	345-364
Depositing User:	Helen Garner
Date Deposited:	12 Jan 2012 11:57
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 04:24
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/4282

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