`HE OWNED ME BASICALLY...'
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Review for the Sociology of Sport
- Vol. 32 (2) , 115-130
- https://doi.org/10.1177/101269097032002001
Abstract
Many women have, at some time, been the subject of sexual harassment or abuse in their working lives. This paper explains how similar experiences also occur in sport and why they have particularly devastating consequences for girls and women. Sexual harassment and abuse arise from the culture of sport and from the opportunities for exploitation of power and authority which this affords coaches. Results from studies of personal accounts of abuse by former women athletes are presented and used to test various explanatory theories of abuse.Keywords
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