This chapter focuses on the development of critical work on gender and sport and how this has changed over time. It talks about sports feminisms and how different theoretical explanations have sought to answer very different questions relating to gender and sport. The underlying assumption of all liberal sports feminism is that sport is fundamentally sound and represents a positive experience to which girls and women need access. Women's oppression cannot simply be explained by class relations and the sexual division of labor (Marxist feminism) or by men's power over women (radical feminism). Socialist feminism attempts to provide a more comprehensive explanation that incorporates both of these areas. Poststructuralist feminists provide conceptual challenges to the macro-analyses of the structural approaches of liberal, radical, and socialist feminism. Finally, the chapter addresses what might be new avenues or questions for feminism, gender, and sport.
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