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"Since she's really good, then the boys let her play" An intersectional perspective on how middle school students at an international school in Denmark (re)do gender through their participation in physical activity at breaktime
No full textThe aim of this article is to provide insights into the role that physical activity plays in how middle school students at an international school (re)do gender, using an intersectional framework. This article uniquely includes the perspectives of gender diverse students, a group that have not been focused on in previous literature. Drawing on West and Zimmerman’s (1987, 2009) concepts of doing and redoing gender, Connells’ (1987) hegemonic masculinity and Schippers' (2002) alternative femininities and masculinities, I explored how gender intersected with sporting ability, age and sex to influence how students ‘(re)did’ gender and how these identities influenced whether students were included, excluded or oppressed in the schoolyard. Hegemonic masculine and emphasized feminine ideals were prevalent in the schoolyard and were not challenged often. Students described their schoolyard as an inclusive environment; however, students of different genders did not always have equal opportunities to be physically active in the schoolyard due to gender dynamics and intersecting identities
Challenging Boundaries by Doing Gender in TeamGym in a World of Binary Sports
No full textThe purpose of this study was to investigate how elite TeamGym (TG) talents do gender and challenge gendered boundaries within TG’s physical culture during the furth feminist wave for the possibility of transforming gendered boundaries and create an inclusive environment for LGBTQIA+ people. Methods used in this multiple case study were observations of three senior TG teams: men, women and one mix team consisting of both men and women followed by semi structured interviews with two gymnasts from each team. The thematic analysis found themes which showed that male and female gymnasts do challenge gendered boundaries in TG, although women gymnasts seem to challenge gendered boundaries more than male gymnasts, which contributes to expanding their ways of doing gender in TG. Concurrently themes also show that there still exists gendered expectations from male and female gymnasts from previous traditions and gender discourses in gymnastics and physiology. Both male and female gymnasts showed positivity towards including LGBTQIA+ people in TG, yet showed skepticism of including transgendered women which might be based on society’s constructed perception that transgendered women have physiological benefits which could outperform cisgendered women. Further investigation in TG and LGBTQIA+ people is necessary to understand how gender is constructed in order to normalize LGBTQIA+ people's participation in elite sports by expanding boundaries for doing gender
Kvindelige rengøringsassistenter er fanget i negativ helbredsspiral
No full textPå trods af at rengøringsassistenter bevæger sig rigtig meget i løbet af en arbejdsdag, har de ofte en dårlig kondition og en øget risiko for at udvikle livsstilssygdomme. Blandt andet fordi de er for trætte efter arbejde til at dyrke idræt i deres fritid, og fordi traditionelle kønsroller ikke giver dem tid
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Life, Work and Recreational Physical Activity of Female Cleaners
No full textThe main aim of this article-based PhD thesis was to explore the recreational physical activity participation of female cleaners – an occupational group mainly consisting of minority ethnic women from non-western countries. As the PhD project was integrated in and financially supported by the Copenhagen Centre for Team Sport and Health, a part of the PhD project was to organize and evaluate a workplace physical activity programme that used team games as the main form of exercise. Via participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 42 cleaners and their supervisors I gained insights into their experiences with and great challenges to participate in a worksite fitness programme as well as their work, family and everyday lives, their previous experiences with sport and exercise and their health-related knowledge, opinions and practices. Although each of the four articles had a different focus and employed different theories, they drew a coherent picture: the interviewees’ everyday lives as migrant cleaners in Denmark had a decisive influence on their opportunities to engage in recreational physical activity: most women struggled with the demands of a physically exhausting job and an extensive ‘second shift’ at home and had therefore great difficulty exercising. In addition, (lack of) previous experience of sport and recreational physical activity seemed to have a decisive influence on their current recreational physical activity practices. I conclude that health policy and initiatives targeting cleaners or other marginalized groups of the population must pay specific attention to structural factors such as the organization of the labour market or to the gendered division of work.The main aim of this article-based PhD thesis was to explore the recreational physical activity participation of female cleaners – an occupational group mainly consisting of minority ethnic women from non-western countries. As the PhD project was integrated in and financially supported by the Copenhagen Centre for Team Sport and Health, a part of the PhD project was to organize and evaluate a workplace physical activity programme that used team games as the main form of exercise. Via participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 42 cleaners and their supervisors I gained insights into their experiences with and great challenges to participate in a worksite fitness programme as well as their work, family and everyday lives, their previous experiences with sport and exercise and their health-related knowledge, opinions and practices. Although each of the four articles had a different focus and employed different theories, they drew a coherent picture: the interviewees’ everyday lives as migrant cleaners in Denmark had a decisive influence on their opportunities to engage in recreational physical activity: most women struggled with the demands of a physically exhausting job and an extensive ‘second shift’ at home and had therefore great difficulty exercising. In addition, (lack of) previous experience of sport and recreational physical activity seemed to have a decisive influence on their current recreational physical activity practices. I conclude that health policy and initiatives targeting cleaners or other marginalized groups of the population must pay specific attention to structural factors such as the organization of the labour market or to the gendered division of work
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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