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"SAME SPORT, DIFFERENT GENDER"

A Consideration of Binary Gender Logic and the Sport Continuum in the Case of Ice Hockey

Nancy Theberge

This article responds to a call by Mary Jo Kane in an earlier Journal of Sport & Social Issues article to consider the "sport continuum" as a counter to conceptions of sport as an "oppositional binary" in which gender is naturalized. The continuum emphasizes women's participation in male-identified team contact sports. Drawing from field work and interviews with elite-level players, the analysis examines the dynamics of the continuum in the context of ice hockey. Player accounts of the practice of men's and women's hockey and their own experiences in gender-integrated settings highlight the many ways in which the construction of hockey and hockey players are distinctly social experiences. The conclusion offers an assessment of the sport continuum as a strategy to challenge the oppositional binary.

Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Vol. 22, No. 2, 183-198 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/019372398022002005
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