Sporty Girls

Sheryl Clark is Lecturer and Researcher in the field of educational studies at Goldsmiths University of London, UK. With a particular interest in gender, sport, identities, youth, schooling and girlhood, Sheryl's research makes use of qualitative methods working with children and young people in schools and other physical activity settings.

1. Defining a "Problem": Girls' Participation in Sport and Physical Education.- 2. Embodying Sporty Girlhood: Exploring Perspectives on Girls' Sporting Participation Through Postfeminism.- 3. Becoming a Sporty Researcher: Gender, Legitimacy and Bodies That Move.- 4. A Good Education: School Achievement, Sport and Becoming a Successful Girl.- 5. Being "Good at Sport": Constituting Bodies Through Competition and Selection Processes.- 6. Responsible Body Projects, Health and Moral Hierarchies.- 7. Gendered and Racialised Bodies in Postfeminist Athletics: Embodied Capacities and Feminist Rage.- 8. Conclusion: Sporting Girlhoods and Feminist Possibilities.