Episode 5: ‘The Feminist Sport Lab’ - Dr Sheree Bekker and Professor Stephen Mumford

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One of the questions at the heart of this podcast is how do we make sport a better experience for all? Can we imagine a world where no one is excluded from sport because of sexism, misogyny, racism, classism or ableism? These questions of sporting values and equality are driving the work of Dr Sheree Bekker and Professor Stephen Mumford. They are co-directors of an exciting new initiative called the feminist sport lab - a gender inclusive space for the application of feminist principles to sport which ‘imagines a sports world divided not into Sport and Women’s Sport, but rather a landscape where Feminist Sport reigns’. In this episode, Sheree and Stephen talk about the feminist lab and their new book ‘Open play: the case for feminist sport’ – In that book, they advocate for a feminist perspective on sport, challenging conventional wisdom on the inferiority of women’s athleticism. You can read more about the Feminist Sport Lab here: https://www.feministsportlab.com Dr Sheree Bekker: https://shereebekker.me; https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/sheree-bekker Professor Stephen Mumford: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/stephen-mumford/; https://stephenmumfordblog.wordpress.com