ShOP Issue 10: August 2007
'Gender and Extreme Sports: The Case of Climbing'
Edited by Dr Victoria Robinson
Contributors
Rachel Dilley
Rachel Dilley has completed a PhD thesis on gender, rock climbing and the body at Leeds Metropolitan University in the Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education. She now lives in Aberdeen and works at the Macaulay Institute as a research assistant on various projects, including one on mountain bikers' and walkers' experiences of landscape, physicality and the outdoors.
Kathy Plate
Kathy Plate is currently working on her thesis as a graduate student at Colorado State University completing her Masters in Anthropology and Women's Studies. She is also the Women's Studies Coordinator at the Office of Women's Programs and Studies. Previous work includes the paper `Rock Climbing is a Masculine Sport? Understanding Gender Expressions in the Rock Climbing Community´ presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in 2006, Vancouver, BC.
Kaydee Summers
Kaydee Summers lives in Utah, which is perfect for a rock and ice climber. She teaches English Writing at Weber State University in the US, and 7th, 8th, and 9th grade English literature at Legacy Preparatory Academy. She has been published in `She Sends´ - a U.S. climbing magazine that is focused on celebrating women in climbing. It is run by an all-female staff and primarily publishes female writers, and increasingly more men. She has also written for `Summit´, the British Mountaineering Council's magazine.
Articles
Victoria Robinson
Women’s Climbing Physicalities: Bodies, Experience and Representation
Rachel Dilley
Rock Climbing is a Masculine Sport? Understanding the complex gendered subculture of rock climbing
Katharine R. Plate
Unequal Genders: Mothers and Fathers on Mountains
Kaydee Summers