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Spoilsports
Sexual exploitation in sport is a problem that has beset both male and female athletes privately for decades but one which has only recently emerged as a public issue. Spoilsports is the first fully comprehensive text on the subject, integrating cutting-edge academic research, new theoretical perspectives, and practical guidelines for performers, coaches, administrators and policy-makers. Key topics covered include: • • • • •
‘moral panic’ children’s rights masculinity and power making and implementing policy leadership in sport.
Spoilsports draws extensively on the personal experiences of athletes and those involved in sport. Challenging and controversial, this book represents an important step towards tackling a difficult issue. It is essential reading for coaches, athletes, parents and policy-makers. Celia H. Brackenridge is Head of the Leisure and Sport Research Unit, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education.
Ethics and Sport Series editors: Mike McNamee, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
and Jim Parry, University of Leeds
The Ethics and Sport series aims to encourage critical reflection on the practice of sport, and to stimulate professional evaluation and development. Each volume explores new work relating philosophical ethics and the social and cultural study of ethical issues. Each is different in scope, appeal, focus and treatment but a balance is sought between local and international focus, perennial and contemporary issues, level of audience, teaching and research application, and variety of practical concerns. Also available in this series: Ethics and Sport Edited by Mike McNamee and Jim Parry Values in Sport Elitism, nationalism, gender equality and the scientific manufacture of winners Edited by Torbjörn Tännsjö and Claudio Tamburrini Fair Play in Sport (forthcoming) A moral norm system Sigmund Loland
Spoilsports Understanding and preventing sexual exploitation in sport
Celia H. Brackenridge
London and New York
First published 2001 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002. © 2001 Celia H. Brackenridge All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. The publisher makes no representation, express or implied, with regard to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Brackenridge, Celia. Spoilsports : understanding and preventing sexual exploitation in sport / Celia H. Brackenridge. p. cm. – (Ethics and sport) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–419–25770–5 – ISBN 0–419–25780–2 (pbk.) 1. Sex discrimination in sports. 2. Sports–Moral and ethical aspects. I. Title. II. Series. GV706.32 .B73 2001 796'.082–dc21 00–068037 ISBN 0-419-25770-5 (hbk) ISBN 0-419-25780-2 (pbk) ISBN 0-203-47893-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-78717-X (Glassbook Format)
This book is dedicated to all athlete survivors who have spoken out against sexual exploitation in sport. What matters is the relation of part to whole. To give meaning to life, we want to see what we do as an element in something that, as a whole, satisfies us. Mary Midgley (1978) Beast