Utilizing Sporting Autobiographies for Feminist Research: The Case of Cyclist Nicole Cooke

In Louise Mansfield, Jayne Caudwell, Belinda Wheaton & Beccy Watson (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education. Palgrave Macmillan Uk. pp. 293-311 (2017)
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Sports autobiographies in general have been a neglected resource in sports research despite their potential to offer a rich source of data, with analytical attention to the autobiographies of sportswomen particularly scarce. This chapter seeks to make two important contributions. First, it advocates the use of autobiographies as a valuable resource for feminist scholarship in sport. Second, via an illustrative case study of cyclist Nicole Cooke’s autobiography The Breakaway a nuanced analysis of contemporary feminist positions is used to bring discussions of feminist theory to the fore. Insight is given to the impact stories containing “trouble” might have for a feminist agenda.

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