Women’s rugby: Playing for love of sport and pride in bruises
WEBWomen’s rugby: Playing for love of sport and pride in bruises. May 4th, 2011 Posted in Arts and Life, Sports. ‘We call ourselves ruggers and we’re a unique bunch. We play in rain and snow and return to practice after practice with skinned knees and blackened eyes.’. Story by Noelle Johansen. Photos by Noelle Johansen and Kat Stowell.
Legitimacy and Respectability on the Skin: Bruises, Women’s Rugby …
WEBOct 14, 2023 · This study, through the example of bruises acquired in the context of rugby, contributes to understanding how women’s bodies are valued, morally assessed and normatively gendered through processes of gazing and othering.
WEBDrawing upon ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores amateur rugby women’s reflexive negotiation of the bruises they earn as a result of the physicality of the game.
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WEBNIRA brings together institutions of higher education that compete at the highest levels of intercollegiate women’s rugby in the United States. The Association seeks, to organize, manage, and promote the sport of intercollegiate women’s rugby, and to annually hold a postseason intercollegiate national women’s rugby championship called the ...
Rugby concussion: Swansea University study into protecting women
WEBRebecca Redmond, 21, from Cardigan, is a flanker with Swansea University's women's rugby team and suffered concussion during a home game last month.
‘They are like badges of honour’: embodied respectability and women …
WEBJan 13, 2016 · Although women rugby players are proud of their bruises, the kinds of resistance practices they engage in by showing off their injuries is complicated by their embodiment of respectability, and risks reproducing forms of social inequality by marginalizing other women.
Applied sports science and sports medicine in women’s rugby: …
WEBJul 21, 2022 · From a concussive symptom standpoint, more symptoms and symptom severity were reported in women’s rugby union players compared with men’s players. 84 In high school rugby union, the median symptom severity was also found to be highest in women with concussion history and lowest in men with no concussion history. 89 Women have been reported ...
Legitimacy and Respectability on the Skin: Bruises, Women’s Rugby …
WEBOn the other hand, these body marks can be anchors of stigma, signalling women’s rugby bodies as ‘deviant’ to non-initiated audiences. The article unpacks this tension between bruises as empowering or disempowering artefacts by demonstrating the situational and interactional nature of gendered dispositions and expectations.
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WEBFeb 18, 2008 · Away from the field, it's hard for anybody to tell that these 35 women play rugby, a sport so violent that professional players consider it common practice to break fingers while going for a ball.
‘They are like badges of honour’: embodied respectability and women …
WEBIn-depth interviews with women rugby players in Texas and California suggest that although sportswomen consider their bruises to be a sign of their toughness, whether they experience sympathy...