Female Football Players and Fans

Gertrud Pfister is Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the author and editor of 17 books and more than 250 articles.  Her main research interest is in gender and sport. Stacey Pope is Associate Professor at Durham University, UK. Her research interests include gender and sport, sports fandom and the sociology of football and rugby union.

1. Introduction; Stacey Pope and Gertrud Pfister .- Section 1: Women’s Football and Female Players .- 2. It’s Still a Man’s Game? The Experiences of Top-Level European Women Footballers; Sheila Scraton, Kari Fasting, Gertrud Pfister and Ana Bunuel .- 3. Women, Football and European Integration: Aims, Questions, Methodological and Theoretical Approaches; Gertrud Pfister .- 4. The Beginnings of Women’s Football in South-Western Germany: From a Spectacle to a Sport Event; Markwart Herzog .- 5. Women’s Football Leagues in Europe – Organizational and Economic Perspectives; Marie-Luise Klein .- 6. Outsiders on the Inside: Integrating Women’s and Men’s Football Clubs in England; Jo Welford .- 7. ‘Who Could Name an England Women’s Footballer?’: Female Fans of Men’s Football and their Views of Women’s Football in England; Stacey Pope .- Section 2: Female Football Fans and their Experiences .- 8. A Socio-Historical Account of Female Experiences of Football’s Golden Age in England; Stacey Popeand John Williams .- 9. Is there a Life beyond Football? How Female Fans Integrate Football into their Everyday Lives; Verena Lenneis, Gertrud Pfister and Svenja-Maria Mintert .- 10. ‘One is not Born, but Rather Becomes, a Fan’: The Socialization of Female Football Fans – A Case Study in Denmark; Gertrud Pfister, Svenja-Maria Mintert and Verena Lenneis .- 11. Women’s Football Supporter Culture in Sweden; Aage Radmann and Susanna Hedenborg .- 12. Challenging or Accommodating the Football System? A Case Study of Female Football Supporter Communities in Spain; Ramón Llopis-Goig and Helena Flores .- 13. Gender, Play and Identity: A Longitudinal Study of Structure and Agency in Female Football Fandom; Cornel Sandvoss and Emily Ball.

“The book provides insight into the complex network of gendered experiences that can be part of playing and spectating football. … Female Football Players and Fans there for is an important contribution to increasing the knowledge and raising awareness of women’s football, and perhaps encouraging people to question their own preconceptions and understandings of this sport.” (Lise Joern, idrottsforum.org, September, 2018)