Developing Sport for Women and Girls

Women and girls are often excluded from organised sport or face challenges in accessing sport or developing within sport. This is the first book to focus on sport development for women and girls. It provides a theoretical and practical framework for readers in the emerging field of sport development.

Developing Sport for Women and Girls examines both the development of sport, and development through sport with expert contributions from Australasia, North America, and Europe. It offers critical analysis of contemporary sport development, from high performance pathways to engaging diverse communities to the use of sport to empower women and girls. Each chapter explores various contexts of sport development and sport for development theory with a specific focus on women and girls. It covers key topics such as health, education, sexual orientation and participation across the lifecourse, and features international case studies in every chapter.

This is essential reading for students, academics, researchers and practitioners working in the area of sport development or sport management.

Katie Rowe is Senior Lecturer in Sport Management and a member of the Centre for Sport Research at Deakin University, Australia. Katie’s research focuses on sport and active recreation participation and community development through sport, with a particular emphasis on issues of relevance to women and girls.

Emma Sherry is an internationally regarded expert in the field of sport development and access and inclusion within the sport and recreation environment. Emma currently sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, the Journal of Sport for Development, Communication and Sport Journal and the International Journal of Sport Business Management.