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Segregated femininities?: Creating female fandom through social media in Sweden
Department of Teacher Education and Outdoor Studies, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
Department of Religious Studies, Södertörns University, Huddinge, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7383-9857
Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Sport Sciences (IDV).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4802-9932
2022 (English)In: Soccer & Society, ISSN 1466-0970, E-ISSN 1743-9590, Vol. 23, no 3, article id 2037213Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The study analyses female fandom in Sweden, focusing on female football supporters' self-presentation on social media. We found social media to function as a forum for empowerment, where the female football fans construct and express solidarity between girls and women and challenge hegemonic notions of femininity. Female football supporters are actively involved in formulating and shaping their own agenda and self-presentation and are drawn to the supporter culture for many of the same reasons as their male peers: group community, thrill and excitement, and the love for their team. The contribution of the study is two-fold: it fills a knowledge gap regarding Swedish female fans, while also making a conceptual intervention in the study of female fandoms more broadly, demonstrating the usefulness of critical theorization on femininities and indicating how social media enables female football supporters to 'play' with different conceptions of femininity to create space within the supporter milieu.

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Taylor & Francis, 2022. Vol. 23, no 3, article id 2037213
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-50454DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2022.2037213ISI: 000758607900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85125410751OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-50454DiVA, id: diva2:1642532
Available from: 2022-03-07 Created: 2022-03-07 Last updated: 2024-02-05Bibliographically approved

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