Disability and gender in sport and physical activity

Toni Louise Williams and Andrea Bundon

Chapter 18 in Reimagining the Gendering of Sport, 2025, pp 224-240 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this book chapter, we take an intersectional approach to address disability and gender, to explore how elite sport and physical activity sectors have expanded to include some disabled people, while leaving others behind. Our discussion begins with critical disability studies and the role of scholars and activists in calling out both disablism and ableism that undermine the well-being of disabled people, and limit opportunities to be active. Next, we provide an overview of the dominant ways of thinking about disability and explain how the medical and social models of disability shape and constrain policies and practices for disabled people. We then share our research into disabled women's experiences of Paralympic sport and recreational physical activity to highlight gender inequity across these spaces. We conclude by reimagining how sport and physical activity can be more gender-equitable and more welcoming to all disabled people.

Keywords: Ableism; Disablism; Inequality; Intersectionality; Paralympic sport; Social justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035310203
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