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• "Successful and feminine athlete" and "natural-born fighter" : a discursive exploration of female judoka's identities in Greece and Finland 

  Kavoura, Anna (University of Jyväskylä, 2018)

  Despite feminist concerns about the asymmetrical distribution of power in martial arts and combat sports (MACS), sport psychology research has overlooked issues of inequality and socio-cultural difference, as well as ...

• “Cute Goddess is Actually an Aunty” : The Evasive Middle-Aged Woman Streamer and Normative Performances of Femininity in Video Game Streaming 

  Ruotsalainen, Maria (SAGE Publications, 2022)

  In this paper the focus is on the representations of “middle-aged” or “aging” women streamers in western media. I analyze discussions in Western online media around a case of Chinese DouYu live-streamer. “Qiaobiluo Dianxia,” ...

• An exploration of socio-cultural and organizational factors affecting women's access to educational leadership 

  Korkor Owusu, Patrick (2014)

  Recent global reports indicate that women have made tremendous improvements in educational enrolment and labour participation but are woefully underrepresented in top leadership positions. Moreover, studies have shown that ...

• In a World Where You can be Anyone : An Investigation into the Gendered Social Practices of Pakistani Facebook Users 

  Salam, Rauha (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022)

  This article investigates the construction of gender identities of Pakistani men and women Facebook users given that Facebook has emerged as the prime social media platform through which Pakistani users interact. By employing ...

• "There Are No Women and They All Play Mercy" : Understanding and Explaining (the Lack of) Women’s Presence in Esports and Competitive Gaming 

  Ruotsalainen, Maria; Friman, Usva (Digital Games Research Association, 2018)

  In this paper, we explore women’s participation in esports and competitive gaming. We will analyze two different types of research material: online questionnaire responses by women explaining their reluctance to participate ...