Webliography
Lim, S. Y., & Dixon, M. A. (2017). A conceptual framework of sport participation and women's
empowerment. Managing Sport & Leisure, 22(5), 400413.
Sports can promote change and growth in women of all ages, proving that working towards team
success can cause more confidence to emerge from individuals who partake in it. However.
sports can also cause issues for some, by not being a safe, accepting, or empowering
environment, this can be a serious issue especially for women. This study helps to explain the
integrated psychological empowerment theory into current sport structure and culture, breaking
down why some sport experiences have the ability to be uplifting and empowering while others
can create quite negative feelings. With new analysis of the design and implementation of
women sport programs, this helps to understand and possibly break down the barriers that some
women have with sports.
The sexualization of sport: A gender analysis of Swedish elite sport from 1967 to the present day.
(2011). The European Journal of Women's Studies, (3), 265.
The objectification and sexualization of Swedish elite sport is analyzed through this article from
the end of the 1960's to today. Sweden was ideal from this analysis because it has been
considered to be the most equal country when it comes to gender. This article takes Swedish
society and their sport culture and puts it under a critical breakdown, showing the effects of the
media and how they are actually not very equal. However, there has been improvement in less
explicit content over time, there is still emphasis on women as a sex and the tone of how media
represents these athletes is still proving to be an issue. Due to the sexualization of women in
sports, in the 1990's there was the thought that this is practically the pornification of sport. This
harshly connects it to market adjustment and commercialization, although the further analysis of
the media's representation doesn't make this idea seem far from the truth. Overall, the Swedish
media is causing women in sports to be a reproduction of inequality, despite claiming to be the
most equal.