Women's Cricket and Global Processes

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-23

3. Cricket and Masculinity in Early Forms of Cricket

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   Pages 25-55

4. Civilising Processes, Gender Relations and the Global Women’s Game

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   Pages 57-88

5. Women’s Cricket, International Governance and Organisation of the Global Game

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   Pages 89-118

6. Cricket and Gendered National Identities: The Experiences of Women Who Play and Organise the ‘Global Game’

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   Pages 119-143

7. Conclusion

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8. Back Matter

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How can the diffusion and development of women's cricket as a global sport be explained? Women 's Cricket and Global Processes considers the emergence and growth of women's cricket around the world and seeks to provide a sociological explanation for how and why the women's game has developed the way it has.

• gender
• Nation
• organization
• sociology
• Sport
• women

• York St John University, UK

  Philippa Velija

Philippa Velija is Head of Programme for Sport Development & Education at York St John University, UK. She applies sociological theories to understanding sport, and in particular she considers gender relations in sport. She has previously published on women's cricket, women and the martial arts and female jockeys. Philippa's research draws on figurational sociology to develop a long term sociological perspective on power relations in women's involvement in sport.

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