A5057263407- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Diversity and Impact of Dance
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Physical Education and Pedagogy
- Sociology and Norbert Elias
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Sports and Physical Education Studies
- Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
- Health and Wellbeing Research
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Physical Activity and Health
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Media Influence and Health
- Social and Educational Sciences
- Emotional Labor in Professions
University of Copenhagen
2016-2025
ABSTRACT This article examines leisure time physical activity (LTPA) for middle‐class women as relational, intricately linked with societal understandings of personal responsibility to work, family and health entangled the emotion management ‘successful’ womanhood. We focus on Danish who engage in routinised participation LTPA. illuminate through our qualitative study how emotional reflexivity involves dispersed practices that are this lifelong these entangled, mutually evolving enable...
Qualitative social scientific research in sport, exercise and other contemporary forms of physical movement has made considerable strides recent years, such that it is not an unreasonable claim ...
The aim of the article is to identify constraining and enabling aspects for management leisure time women participating in 'Football Fitness', a new 'sport all programme' carried out associative sport clubs Denmark. based on six focus group interviews with white, middle-class female participants (N = 32, aged 27–56). An analysis combining Hochschild's conceptualization second third shift [1989. Second Shift. New York: Avon] Elias Dunning's perspective as part spare-time spectrum quest...
The present paper explores how aging bodies of middle-aged women can enable and constrain participation in physical activity. study is inspired by the process sociology Norbert Elias builds on qualitative empirical material from passive observations ( N = 57), focus groups 51), individual follow-up interviews 21) with Danish who participated a 3-month research project exercise intervention. found that awareness bodily enabled taking up Additionally, regular midlife be understood as highly...
The aim of the present study was to illuminate how middle-aged women in Denmark manage, practically and emotionally, exercise personal leisure time within constraints an ongoing bind related societal obligations work family. inspired by micro sociological perspective Arlie Hochschild, findings are based on empirical material from focus groups Danish who completed a three months research intervention (N = 51), individual follow-up interviews 21). We elucidate being successful at work, good...
The aim of the article is to understand potential football in health initiatives for women – a topic relatively underrepresented research. Specifically, this examines case 'Football Fitness', new 'sport all' programme carried out associative sport clubs Denmark. based on six focus group interviews with white, middle-class female participants (N = 32, aged 27–56). study shows that while may have been motivation join programme, they emphasize joy playing and fellowship club as crucial their...
The aim of this article is to understand how the established biomedical perspective on body enables and constrains participation in physical activity. Based a sociological standpoint, an exercise intervention with middle-aged women analysed through empirical material from observation (N = 57), focus groups 51) individual follow-up interviews 21). finds that spinning highly routinized structured activity entails prevailing health-promoting control emotions complete scarcity emotional...
Middle Aged Man in Lycra (MAMIL) is a cultural phenomenon associated with gendered and conspicuous practice that can be inclusive by attracting individuals not previously engaged physical activities as well exclusive due to its gender socio-economic conformity. Inspired the works of Linda Hutcheon Judith Butler, we argue MAMIL an ironic figure constituting complex multifaceted character deeply embedded particular context. By analyzing TV advertising spot for Tour de France 2021 which...
Artiklen belyser, hvordan unge pigers forhold til bade- og omklædningssituationeninvolverer en ubehagelig skamfølelse.Formålet med artiklen er at belyse, forholdet mellem samfund krop kan påvirke de handlinger i omklædningssituationen efter idræt. Undersøgelsen teoretisk inspireret af Norbert Elias (2000; 2008) samt Erving Goffman (1982; 1990) primært fokus på teoretikernes sociale forståelse følelsen skam dens indflydelse individets handlinger.