Reconceptualizing sport: embracing critical feminist theory and intersectionality

Jennifer J. Waldron

Chapter 2 in Reimagining the Gendering of Sport, 2025, pp 17-34 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Critical feminist theory (CFT) and intersectionality offer valuable insights into the reimagining of sport, emphasizing the need to address systemic inequalities, power, and oppression by focusing on athletes with multifaceted and marginalized identities. CFT views sport through the lens of gender and critiques masculine and binary gender norms that marginalize women and nonbinary, trans, and intersex individuals. Intersectionality examines how overlapping social oppressions and privileges contribute to unique experiences associated with diverse social identities. By integrating these perspectives, we can make visible the taken-for-granted practices in sport that (re)produce a dominant narrative. After presenting CFT and intersectionality, examples of scholarship will be highlighted. I conclude with how we, sport scholars, can use CFT and intersectionality to reimagine and think differently about sport and unleash the power of liberation and everyday resistance.

Keywords: Critical feminist theory; Intersectionality; Power; Resistance; Oppression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035310203
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