Gender and Physical Activity

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

An examination of gender with a focus on how sport and physical activity reproduce, shape, and challenge constructions of femininity and masculinity. A socio-historical perspective on the relationship of sport to the cultural construction and interpretation of gender in Canadian society, and how gender operates as a central factor in the way that sport is played, organized and funded. Consideration of the issues of, and intersections between, equity, race, ethnicity, sexualities and social class.