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Body Talk: Male Athletes Reflect on Sport, Injury, and Pain
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This paper examines how participation in physically demanding sport, with its potential and actual injurious outcomes, both challenges and reinforces dominant notions of masculinity. Data from 16 in-depth interviews with former and current Canadian adult male athletes indicate that sport practices privileging forceful notions of masculinity are highly valued, and that serious injury is framed as a masculinizing experience. It is argued that a generally unreflexive approach to past disablement is an extraordinary domain feature of contemporary sport. The risks associated with violent sport appear to go relatively unquestioned by men who have suffered debilitating injury and whose daily lives are marked by physical constraints and pain.
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In a study of 16 Canadian athletes, some expressed acceptance of injury as masculine and valued living with everyday pain, sporting violence and even death.
“A study by Young et al. interviewed 16 Canadian athletes (e.g., ice hockey, football and rugby) to explore their personal acceptance of injury in various sports. In some cases it was expressed by the athletes as being masculine and somewhat highly valued living with ‘everyday pain’, sporting violence and even death [68].”
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- Young, K., White, P., & McTeer, W.
- Affiliations
- 1University of Calgary
- 2McMaster University
- 3Wilfrid Laurier University
- Venue
- Sociology of Sport Journal
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- Human Kinetics
- Published
- 1994-06
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 175-194
- ISSN
- 0741-1235
- 1543-2785
- Cited by
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