Open Access“Why Did I Really Want to Coach? To Help Girls”:
Author(s) -
Alanna Fittes
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
movement matters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2564-1611
DOI - 10.29173/mm8
Subject(s) - coaching , masculinity , femininity , discipline , feminism , gender studies , power (physics) , psychology , sociology , social science , physics , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist
The purpose of this study was to investigate women coaches’ experiences in high-performance rugby union. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four women who had experience coaching at the representative, university, and/or international level. Informed by a Foucauldian feminism, the analysis revealed how disciplinary power, the formation of dominant knowledges, and the pervasiveness of surveillance operated in a deeply masculine environment of high-performance rugby. This study provides an in-depth examination of femininity, masculinity, and what it means to be a woman leader in the world of high-performance rugby union.