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dc.contributor.authorSkille, Eivind Å.
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-24T07:21:07Z
dc.date.available2010-09-24T07:21:07Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationSkille, E.Å. (2008). Biggest but smallest : female football and the case of Norway. Soccer and Society. 9(4), 520-531en_US
dc.identifier.issn1466-0970
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/134244
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14660970802257598en_US
dc.description.abstractThis essay discusses the contemporary gender situation in Norwegian football (soccer), with reference to three questions: (i) why is there still a significant gender gap; (ii) why has female football grown rapidly over the last decades; and (iii) why is the Norwegian situation relatively egalitarian after all, when compared, for example, to the UK? The former two questions are analysed by the application of the work of Dunning, which shows that, first, football has historically been a male preserve, and secondly, the civilizing process has led to a more regulated society, which in turn has led to increased female participation in sports. The latter question is analysed in the contextual research on leisure and the welfare state to nuance the general picture of the welfare state, to show that the process of civilizing has worked differently - and probably faster - in the Scandinavian countries, which has also led to increased female participation in football in Norwayen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSoccer & Societyen_US
dc.subjectkvinnefotballen_US
dc.subjectfotballen_US
dc.titleBiggest but smallest: female football and the case of Norway.en_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Social science: 200::Social science in sports: 330::Physical education and sport psychology: 333en_US
dc.source.pagenumber520-531en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14660970802257598


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