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Grahn, Karin – Sport, Education and Society, 2014
This paper is based on analyses of ideas about girls and boys in sports as they are presented in textbooks used in coaching education programmes in Sweden. Specifically, it explores gender in relation to descriptions of girls' and boys' bodies and bodily development during puberty. Texts construct gender differences. Masculinity is shaped around…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Human Body, Gender Differences