Masculine Female Athletes' Survival Strategies and The Gender Culture in Sports Field

• Main Authors: Ying-Fan Chiang, 江映帆
• Other Authors: Denise Tse-Shang Tang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89998382244070867992

碩士 === 世新大學 === 性別研究所 === 100 === Gender issues are getting more attention these years but female athletes’ career developments did not earn much concern as well. Present studies about female athletes even consider this depressed condition as the stigma of masculine lesbians, which cause female athletes losing their subjectivities. This research attempts to discuss the training processes of masculine female athletes, to discover the resource-allocation inequality situation in sports field, and to understand female athletes’ experiences of suffering stigma and pressure under the interaction between sports field and patriarchy power; furthermore, to perceive how they fight against patriarchy by devising their masculine subjectivities. The priority concern is on masculine female athletes’ dynamic subjectivities and to discuss the hidden patriarchy and heterosexual hegemony in sports field, finding their survival strategies. 10 masculine female athletes were interviewed about 2-3 hours through October 2009 to December 2011 by semi-structured interviews. Research findings show masculine female athletes does not conflict with gender characters, they actually transform themselves through their feminine positions into sports’ patriarchy. These females coherently present masculine female athletes by winning the authority of female masculinity. Although masculine female athletes’ experience stigma easily under heterosexual hegemony while people examining their body figures and sexualities, however, the process of overcoming stigma and depressions give them abilities to break the dichotomy of feminine/masculine, further being able to build their own positions through female masculine subjectivities.