Contesting muscularity and femininity : an analysis of female footballers in Singapore.

• Main Author: Yeo, Lucia Yunwei.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51686
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This premise of this paper is centred on the idea that muscularity presents a sight/site of conflict for female footballers in the cultural milieu of Singapore. It then seeks to explore how these female footballers have come to reconcile with their muscularity and negotiate their gender identity wit...