Women’s Cricket and Global Processes: The Emergence and Development of Women’s Cricket as a Global Game

184 Pages·2015·0.822 MB·English

by  Philippa Velija (auth.)

Women’s Cricket and Global Processes
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Women’s Cricket
and Global Processes
The Emergence and Development
of Women’s Cricket as a Global Game
Philippa Velija
York St John University, UK
© Philippa Velija 2015
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Velija, Philippa.
Women’s cricket and global processes : the emergence and
development of women’s cricket as a global game / Philippa Velija.
pages cm
1. Cricket for women. 2. Cricket—Social aspects. 3. Sports and
globalization. I. Title.
GV929.V45 2015
796.358082—dc23 2014049595
For Cimi, Mollie and Merida
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Contents
List of Tables viii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements x
1 Introduction 1
2 Cricket and Masculinity in Early Forms of Cricket 25
3 Civilising Processes, Gender Relations
and the Global Women’s Game 57
4 Women’s Cricket, International Governance
and Organisation of the Global Game 89
5 Cricket and Gendered National Identities:
The Experiences of Women Who Play and Organise
the ‘Global Game’ 119
6 Conclusion 145
References 159
Index 167
List of Tables
1.1 Significant dates in the global development of
men’s and women’s cricket 7
5.1 ICC World T20 prize money 125
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Preface
This book provides a sociological analysis of women’s cricket by
focusing on understanding the emergence, development and con-
tinual issues that enable and constrain the development of women’s
cricket as a global game. Despite there being extensive academic
research on the history and globalisation of men’s cricket, little is
known about the development and emergence of women’s cricket as
a global sport. In popular accounts women’s cricket is wrongly con-
sidered a ‘new’ sport, one that was developed through men’s involve-
ment post-2005. But this is not the case and this book seeks to
uncover the social processes involved in the emergence and develop-
ment of women’s cricket and the organisations that govern the game
nationally and internationally. Focusing on power relations between
men’s and women’s cricket, this book seeks to explain, firstly, how
and why the women’s game has developed the way it has, and sec-
ondly, how power relations between men’s and women’s cricket con-
tinue to shape the development of the women’s game as well as
influence the social identities of women who play the ‘global game’.
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