The Trouble with Feelings Gender, Sexualities, and Power in a Gender Regime of Competitive Sailing

By using fieldwork data from an ethnographic study of a competitive sailing subculture in Australia, this work explores how gender and power are done through a complex and contradictory bricolage of subjectivities (defined as bodies of feelings), social practices, and social structures. It suggests...

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Published inJournal of sport and social issues Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 421 - 438
Main Author Bricknell, Louise
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.11.1999
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Australia
Power
Sailing & sailboats
Sex
Sexes
Sexuality
Shipping Industry
Social Power
Sociology
Sports
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Summary:By using fieldwork data from an ethnographic study of a competitive sailing subculture in Australia, this work explores how gender and power are done through a complex and contradictory bricolage of subjectivities (defined as bodies of feelings), social practices, and social structures. It suggests that analytical frameworks that incorporate these three levels of analysis may contribute to the accessibility of social constructionist critiques of various cultural forms, practices, and gender regimes. Furthermore, it seeks to assist the development of conceptual frameworks that can place subjectivities into the center of analyses, without raising the spectre of either essentialism or complete reductionism.
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ISSN:0193-7235
1552-7638
DOI:10.1177/0193723599234005