Full Description
This Handbook is the first to bring together scholars working in the quickly evolving field of menstruation in sport research. After decades of silencing, stigma and taboo, menstruation in sport is finally garnering the attention of sports organizations, media and the public alike. Yet many longstanding and new challenges continue to face menstruators as they participate in sport and physical activity environments. Focusing on health, wellbeing and performance, this foundational volume brings together researchers from different disciplines and contexts to advance new theoretical, methodological and practical insights into the historical, social, cultural, economic, mediated, technological, physiological and endocrinological complexities of menstruation in sport. With contributions from those living and working in a range of geographical contexts (Africa, Australia, China, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United States of America and the United Kingdom), the Handbook explores the importance of cultural contexts in shaping knowledge, practices and policies relating to menstruation in sport and physical activity. The extensive transdisciplinary and international breadth of topics provides not only a cohesive summary of the current literature of menstruation in sport but critical perspectives on current debates, oversights, and next steps in the study, policy and practice of menstruation in sport. In so doing, the Handbook makes a timely and critical intervention for scholars, students, sports organisations and practitioners working to remove gendered barriers and obstacles in sport and physical activity.
Contents
Chapter 1: Menstruation Matters in Sport and Physical Activity Research Trends and Future Directions.- Chapter 2: Revisiting the Eternally Wounded Woman The Long History of Menstruation in Sport.- Chapter 3: Breaking Down the Stigma and Complexities of Menstrual Health and Performance Research.- Chapter 4: The Menstrual Cycle and Injuries The Importance of Knowledge and Communication for Healthy Recovery.- Chapter 5: Governing REDs Examining Issues of Gender Menstruation and Athlete Health in Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport.- Chapter 6: Menstruating Bodies Beyond Gender Binaries A Critical Dialogue.- Chapter 7: Women and Sport in the Global South Ubuntu and Care in Menstrual Health Policy Practic and Research.- Chapter 8: Toward Menstrual Justice in Sport for Development Framing Sexual and Reproductive Health Initiatives through Embodied Realities.- Chapter 9: Girls Leaking Bodies in Sport Physical Activity and Leisure IndoFijian Perspectives and Cultural Management of Menstruation.- Chapter 10: Embracing the strength in Cycles Insights from a wahine Maori sports practitioner on Menstruation.- Chapter 11: Whakarongo ki te korero o nga Wahine Maori Listening to the Voices of Our Female Deities Ancestors Leaders and Youth.- Chapter 12: Chinese Sportswomens Experiences of Menstruation.- Chapter 13: The Value of MixedMethod Approaches to Menstrual Health in Sport A Case of Elite Track Cycling.- Chapter 14: PeriodFriendly Sport Environments Positive Outcomes and Continuing Challenges for Women Olympic Weightlifters.- Chapter 15: Should I Ask My Participants if They Track Their Periods Stigmatisation and the Role Men Have in Researching Menstruation in Sport.- Chapter 16: Menstruation and ParaSport Intersections of Body Theory and Disability Studies.- Chapter 17: Disabled Sportswomens Experiences of Menstruation.- Chapter 18: Menstruation and Coaching Women Athletes Education Communication and Tracking of the Menstrual Cycle.- Chapter 19: Staying in the Game Menstrual Health Literacy for Adolescent Athletes.- Chapter 20: Leaders Knowledge Experiences and Facilitation of Menstruation in Adventurous Activities.- Chapter 21: Flow and Friction Navigating Menstrual Equity and Resistance in the Outdoors.- Chapter 22: Building a Female Athlete Health Literacy Programme within Netball in Aotearoa New Zealand.- Chapter 23: Empowering Not Scrutinizing A Critical Dialogue with Sport Practitioners about Menstruation Health and Performance.- Chapter 24: Media Representations of Menstruation in Sport An Analysis of North American Media.- Chapter 25: Nobody is Talking About This Exploring the Postfeminist Promise of Cycle Syncing TikTok Content.- Chapter 26: My Body is Finally in Tune with Itself A Diffractive Reading of Cycle Syncing Health and Productivity in Practice.- Chapter 27: I Dont Think they Knew How to Do Anything with It AFLW Footballers Experiences of Menstruation Tracking.
