Football and femininity. A phenomenological study of gender, football and motivation seen from a female perspective in a sociocultural context

• Main Author: Blomstereng, Nathalie
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2016
• Subjects: Visual Cultural Studies; VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Samfunnsvitenskapelige idrettsfag: 330; VDP::Social science: 200::Social science in sports: 330; SVF-3903; Norway; Tromsø; Fløya; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/9967

Football is in Norway today the most popular sport across genders. Football is also a very male dominated arena because of its masculine features and because the masculine has for a long period been seen as a male trait. The females have since the day they entered this environment been exposed to th...