Female football fans or football fangirls? : A study on how female football fans in Singapore negotiate their identity as women and as fans through their social experiences.

• Main Author: Nur Syahirah Jasni.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Individualism, differentiation and struggle
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51650
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis explored how female football fans in Singapore, being marginalized and excluded from the male dominated football arena, negotiated their identity as both a woman and a fan. Based on these women’s experiences, I embarked on a micro-sociological study to unravel and discover the ways in wh...