@article{a0c3cfc4afad458c8c0f49d1bf2b1766,
title = "Women's Soccer in the Republic of Ireland: some preliminary sociological comments",
abstract = "This essay endeavours to present a more reality-congruent understanding of aspects of theemergence and development of women{\textquoteright}s soccer in Ireland since the 1970s. It draws on interviewand survey data, and on the author{\textquoteright}s elite level involvement in women{\textquoteright}s soccer sincethe mid 1990s, to suggest that a present day phenomenon – in this case, females{\textquoteright} increasinginvolvement in a traditionally male-associated sport like soccer – is more adequatelyunderstood as a specific point in a longer and wider developmental social phenomenon. Incomparison to previous works in this general area (for example, Bourke and Williams), itis suggested that females{\textquoteright} increasing participation in soccer in Ireland is more adequatelyunderstood, in sociological terms, by looking at: (i) the position of soccer in the overallstatus hierarchy of sports; (ii) female and male athletes{\textquoteright} positions within soccer; (iii) theconsequences of social relations for the self-conceptions of males{\textquoteright} and females{\textquoteright} habituses:and, (iv) the ways in which changes in the self-images and social make-up of male andfemale athletes are inextricably bound up with changes in the social structure of genderrelations generally. Finally, this chapter offers some ideas for future directions in researchon women{\textquoteright}s soccer, and women{\textquoteright}s sports more generally.",
keywords = "women's soccer, Ireland, gender",
author = "Katie/K Liston",
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year = "2006",
month = oct,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1080/14660970600615450",
language = "English",
volume = "7",
pages = "364--384",
journal = "Soccer and Society",
issn = "1466-0970",
publisher = "Taylor & Francis",
number = "2-3",
}