Browsing by Author "Bowes, Ali"
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'Battle of the Sixes': investigating print media representations of female professional golfers competing in a men's tour event (Pre published)
Kitching, Niamh; Bowes, Ali (SAGE Publications, 2019-04-14)In May 2018, the men’s European Tour invited five female professional golfers to compete in its GolfSixes event in England, against 27 professional male players. This was significant, particularly given the female struggle ... -
“Didn’t know she could shout that loud”: the performance of fandom among women followers of women’s golf
Kitching, Niamh; Bowes, Ali; Whigham, Stuart; Bairner, Alan (2022-06-20)While a growing body of evidence exists around women fans of men’s sport, less is known about women fans’ perspectives and identities in relation to women’s sport, and what is known tends to focus on homogenous representations ... -
‘The golf course doesn’t know what gender you are’: feminist perspectives in the online blog of a female professional golfer
Kitching, Niamh; Bowes, Ali; MacLaren, Meghan (Routledge, 2022-09)Many female athletes are using online platforms to control their own portrayals, and such representations have been examined mostly through neoliberal and postfeminist perspectives, which position female athletes as ... -
Online activism and athlete advocacy in professional women’s golf: risk or reward? (Pre-published)
Kitching, Niamh; Bowes, Ali; MacLaren, Meghan (Routledge, 2021-12-10)Whilst golf provides an avenue by which women can play professionally, more men have the opportunity to do so and when they do, they make more money than women. In terms of visibility, endorsements, prize money and media ... -
Selling Scotland? Selling women’s golf? The 2019 Solheim Cup in the ‘Home of Golf’ (Pre-published)
Whigham, Stuart; Bowes, Ali; Kitching, Niamh; Bairner, Alan (Routledge, 2021-07-10)In 2019, Scotland played host to the Solheim Cup, a competition contested by leading women professional golfers representing Europe and the United States. The event was given further political significance by the fact that ... -
The Solheim Cup: media representations of golf, gender and national identity (Pre-published)
Bowes, Ali; Kitching, Niamh (Emerald publishing, 2021-11-29)The increasing inclusion of women in sport has been mediated by societal gendered expectations. It is an oft-cited notion that sport is “an institution created by and for men” (Messner and Sabo, 1990: 9), and sport is ... -
'Top of the tree': examining the print news portrayal of the world's best female amateur golfer during her transition to professional golf (Pre-published)
Kitching, Niamh; Bowes, Ali (Cork University Press, 2020-05-20)Sport occupies a central position in Irish social and cultural life, yet has been relatively marginal within the academy. Significant research has been undertaken by individual scholars, and various important books have ... -
Women, war and sport: the battle of the 2019 Solheim Cup (Pre-published)
Bowes, Ali; Bairner, Alan; Whigham, Stuart; Kitching, Niamh (Taylor and Francis, 2021-05-29)One of the most significant and/or prevalent symbols of nationhood is to be found in the international (men’s) sporting arena. Sport is often imbued with notions of national identity and war, although the sport of golf ... -
'Wow these girls can play’: sex integration in professional golf (Pre-published)
Bowes, Ali; Kitching, Niamh (Routledge, 2020-02-20)Men and women typically operate in separate spaces in the sporting world, with sport being one of the few social institutions that continues to segregate the two sexes. The culture of golf, like sport more broadly, is ... -
'Write when it hurts. Then write till it doesn’t’: athlete voice and the lived realities of one female professional athlete (Pre-published)
Kitching, Niamh; Bowes, Ali; MacLaren, Meghan (2020-11-21)Digital media has played a central role in promoting women’s sport, where female athletes are increasingly using online platforms to control their own representations and challenge male dominated sporting institutions. ...