TY - BOOK AU - Kanemasu,Yoko TI - Pacific Island women and contested sporting spaces: staking their claim T2 - Global gender SN - 9781003146513 AV - GV709.18.I76 U1 - 796.082 23/eng/20230419 PY - 2023/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Women athletes KW - Islands of the Pacific KW - Sports for women KW - Sports KW - Social aspects KW - Sex role KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies KW - bisacsh N1 - Introduction -- Fiji women's rugby : resistance against all odds -- Athletic Indo-Fijian women : beyond sporting absence -- Vanuatu women's beach volleyball : subversive stars in alignment -- Solomon Islands women's soccer : seizing the moment for change -- Samoa women's rugby : working with 'culture' -- Conclusion N2 - "This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces - in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise - as a prism to explore grassroots women's engagement with heavily entrenched postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy. Based on primary research conducted in Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, the book investigates contested sporting spaces as sites of infrapolitics intersected primarily by gender and also by other markers of inequality including ethnicity, sexuality, class and geopolitics. Contrary to historical and contemporary representations of Pacific Island women as victims of gender injustice, it explores how these athletes and those who support them actively carve out space for their transformative agency. Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces: Staking Their Claim focuses on a region underexamined by sport or gender studies researchers and will be of key interest to scholars and students in gender studies, sport studies, sociology, and Pacific Studies as well as sport practitioners and policymakers"-- UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003146513 UR - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf ER -