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Smash Mouth Football

2012; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 38; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/0193723512468759

1552-7638

Bobbi A. Knapp,

Sports Analytics and Performance

Opportunities for women to participate on professional women’s football teams have expanded over the past decade. Still the experiences of these players have largely gone unnoticed by the general public in the United States and underanalyzed by scholars. Using a feminist interactionist framework, this research examines how women on a successful Midwestern football team developed and maintained their identities as football players. The major themes that emerged from participant observations and semistructured interviews include play the right way, recognize uniqueness, and demand respect.