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Superwomen? Young sporting women, temporality and learning not to be perfect (2021)

Ronkainen, N. J., Allen-Collinson, J., Aggerholm, K., & Ryba, T. V. (2021). Superwomen? Young sporting women, temporality and learning not to be perfect. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 56(8), 1137-1153. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690220979710

JYU-tekijät tai -toimittajat

Ronkainen, Noora
Ryba, Tatiana

Julkaisun tiedot

Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Ronkainen, Noora J; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn; Aggerholm, Kenneth; Ryba, Tatiana V

Lehti tai sarja: International Review for the Sociology of Sport

ISSN: 1012-6902

eISSN: 1461-7218

Julkaisuvuosi: 2021

Ilmestymispäivä: 16.12.2020

Volyymi: 56

Lehden numero: 8

Artikkelin sivunumerot: 1137-1153

Kustantaja: SAGE Publications

Julkaisumaa: Britannia

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690220979710

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Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/73339

Tiivistelmä

New forms of neoliberal femininity create demanding horizons of expectation for young women. For talented athletes, these pressures are intensified by the establishment of dual-career discourses that construct the combination of high-performance sport and education as a normative, ‘ideal’ pathway. The pressed time perspective inherent in dual-careers requires athletes to employ a variety of time-related skills, especially for young women who aim to live up to ‘superwoman’ ideals that valorise ‘success’ in all walks of life. Drawing on existential phenomenology, and in-depth interviews with 10 talented Finnish sportswomen (aged 19–22), we explored their experiences of lived time when pursuing dual-careers in upper secondary sport schools. Exploring participants’ bodily experiences of inhabiting the achievement life-world, we analyse how these sportswomen either learned ways of living up to this ambitious script or came to understand the detrimental effects of the script, necessitating other ways of being. For those who experience a disjuncture between the ‘perfect’ and their embodied experience, self-care practices are needed to restore life-world harmony, and orient to alternative futures.

YSO-asiasanat: urheilijat; naiset; kokemukset; identiteetti; suorituskyky; koulutus; urakehitys; fenomenologia