The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality offers a guide of unparalleled depth and breadth to the many complex inter-relationships between sport, gender, and sexuality. Consisting entirely of new empirical and theoretical essays by leading and emerging researchers and scholars from around the world, the books maps the historical, theoretical and empirical terrain of gender and sexuality studies in sport. It examines structural and cultural forms of gender segregation, homophobia, heteronormativity and transphobia, as well as the ideological struggles and changes that have led to nuanced ways of thinking about the sport, gender, and sexuality nexus.

This is a landmark work of reference that will be a key resource for all advanced students and researchers working in sport studies, gender studies, sexuality studies or sociology.

Jennifer Hargreaves is retired from full-time university work and is now a freelance writer/consultant. She was an early pioneer of sport sociology specializing in gender issues, the role of women in sport and the politics of the body. Jennifer has published prolifically, with translations into several different languages; has given addresses all over the world; and has worked as a guest professor in Germany, Hong Kong and Japan.

Eric Anderson is a sociologist and a Professor of Sport, Masculinities and Sexualities at the University of Winchester, UK. His research shows an increasingly positive relationship between gay athletes and sport, as well as a growing movement of heterosexual masculinities becoming softer and more inclusive. Professor Anderson has published twelve books, including Sport, Theory and Social Problems, Inclusive Masculinity and Sport, Masculinities and Sexualities, all with Routledge.

Introduction 1. Sport, Gender and Sexuality: Surveying the Field Section 1 Historical Perspectives: Setting the Scene 2. Games for the Boys: Sport, Empire and the Creation of the Masculine Ideal 3. Sport, Gender and Sexuality at the 1908 London Olympic Games 4. Gender In/Equality at the Olympic and Paralympic Games 5. The Dancing Body, Sexuality, and the Emergence of the 'New Woman' 6. Women and Sport in Interwar Britain 7. The Gendered Governance of Association Football 8. A Post-Colonial Critique of the International 'Movements' for Women and Sexuality in Sport. Section 2 Views from Countries across the World 9. Women and Sport in Mainland China: Revolution, Resistance and Resilience 10. From Ry¿saikenbo to the World Cup Win of Nadeshiko: Women and Sports in Japan 11. Sumo and Masculine Gigantism 12. Rituals of the Masculine State: Sports Festivals, Gender and Power in Laos and Southeast Asia 13. Gendered Barriers to Brazilian Female Football: 20th Century Legacies 14. The Participation of Women in Brazilian Olympic Sport 15. Women and Athletics in South Africa Section 3 Diversity and Division 16. Intersectionality and Whiteness: Troubling Gender and Sexuality in Sport Studies 17. British Asian Female Footballers: Intersections of Identity 18. Black Female Athletes as Space Invaders 19. Disabled Sporting Bodies as Sexual Beings: Reflections and Challenges 20. The Role of Sport in Negotiating the Dilemma of Disabled Masculinity 21. Religion, Culture and Sport in the Lives of Young Muslim Women: International Perspectives Section 4 Gender Conformity and its Challenges 22. Interrogating the Body in Contemporary Cheerleading 23. Sexuality and the Muscular Male Body 24. Can Gender Equality Become an Encumbrance? 25. Women and Surfing Spaces in Newquay, UK 26. Female Football Fans and Gender Performance 27. Watching Women Box Section 5 Homosexuality: Issues and Challenges 28. Overcoming Sexism and Homophobia in Women's Sports 29. Sport and a Cultural Shift Away from Homohysteria 30. Contextualizing Homophobic Language in Sport 31. 100 Missing Men: Participation, Selection, and Silence of Gay Athletes 32. I Don't "Look Gay": Different Disclosures of Sexual Identity in Men's, Women's and Co-ed Sport 33. Gay Sport Spaces: Transgressing Hetero(/homo)normativity and Transforming Sport? 34. The Gay Games: A Beacon of Inclusion in Sport? 35. The Pink Flamingo: A Gay Aquatic Spectacle Section 6 Questioning and Transgressing Sex 36. Subjective Sex: Science, Medicine and Sex Tests in Sport 37. Affective Forms: Neuroscience, Gender and Sport 38. Queer Genes? The Bio-Amazons Project: A Response to Critics 39. Transgender Exclusion and Inclusion in Sport 40. The Inclusion of Transgender Students in United States School-Based Athletics 41. Male/Female or Other: the Untold Stories of Female Athletes with Intersex Conditions in India Section 7 Power, Control and Abuse 42. Foucauldian Examinations of Sport, Gender and Sexuality 43. Psychological Safety and the Expression of Sexual Orientation Personal Identity 44. Sportswork: The Gendered Significance of Sport at Work 45. Suffering in Gratitude: Sport and the Sexually Abused Male Child 46. The Olympic Missionary Position: Gender, Race, and the Telling of Truths 47. Transcending the (White) Straight Mind in Sport Section 8 Gender and Sexuality in the Mediation of Sport 48. Sporting Fictions: In Praise of Masculinity? 49. Transmitting Softer Masculinity: Sports Talk Radio and Masculinity 50. Sexuality in the Mediation of Sport 51. Gender, Media and the Sport Scandal 52. Myth and Masculinity in the Sport Films of Jorgen Leth 53. Gender Trouble in Female Sports Films