‘Girls Can’t Ball:’ Exclusion, Resistance, and Empowerment in Women’s Soccer
摘要
This chapter focuses on the experiences of young minority women striving to play soccer on Toronto’s Southeast side while facing intersecting forces of exclusion in sport and society alike. Herein, I analyze their marginalization from local sport, the subsequent impact of a ‘girls-only’ soccer program, as well as the various challenges and contradictions that emerged along their path toward sporting inclusion. My focus on furthering the involvement of young minority women speaks to an increasing demand for socio-cultural sport scholars to work toward greater justice and transformative possibilities for individuals and groups located within inequitable leisure spaces (Andrews 2008; Friedman and van Ingen 2011; Spaaij et al. 2014).