Athletic Intruders: Ethnographic Research on Women, Culture, and Exercise

CONTRIBUTORS

Anne Bolin received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Colorado. She is a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Elon University, Elon, North Carolina. She has presented and published extensively in the research areas of sport ethnography and bodybuilding, gender and the body, human sexuality, and gender variance. Her publications include numerous articles and several books. Her book In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage received a CHOICE Magazine Award for Outstanding Academic Book for 1988–89. She has co-authored an anthropology of human sexuality textbook with Patricia Whelehan, Perspectives on Human Sexuality. Her current ethnographic research is with competitive women bodybuilders for a book entitled Elegant Ironworkers: Beauties and Beasts in Bodybuilding. She is an active competitor in amateur women’s bodybuilding , having competed at the state and national levels. Dona Davis received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980. She is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Dakota and Visiting Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Tromso in Tromso, Norway . Her areas of research and publication include North Atlantic Maritime cultures, Human Sexuality, Gender, Anthropology of the Body, and Women’s Health. Shari L. Dworkin received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2000 and is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Her substantive areas of research include gender, bodies/sport, media, and sexuality. Some of her C O N T R I B U T O R S ‫ﱰﱯ‬ 261 published works include: “‘Holding Back:’ Negotiating a Glass Ceiling on Women’s Muscular Strength” (2001, Sociological Perspectives); “Just Do What? Sport Bodies, Gender” (1999, in Judith Lorber, Beth Hess, and Myra Marx Ferree, eds., Revisinging Gender); “Discipling the Body: HIV Positive Male Athletes, Media Surveillance and the Policing of Sexuality” (1998, Sociology of Sport Journal, coauthored with Faye Linda Wachs). She is currently coauthor on a book with Leslie Heywood, entitled Built to Win: The Rise of the Female Athele as Cultural Icon. She teaches courses in the sociology of gender, qualitative methods, social inequality, family, sport and the body, and sexuality and culture. Jane Granskog received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at California State University, Bakersfield. She has been conducting ethnographic research on women in sport for the past sixteen years and has presented and published a number of articles on sport ethnography and the participatory sport of triathlons. Some of her more recent publications in this area include: “Women in Triathlons,” in the International Encyclopedia of Women & Sport (2000); “In Search of the Ultimate—Ritual Aspects of the Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon,” in the Journal of Ritual Studies (1993); and “Tri-ing Together: An Exploratory Analysis of the Social Networks of Female and Male Triathletes,” in Play and Culture (1992). Her research in this area is from an insider’s perspective as an elite Master’s (over age 40) triathlete. She has completed over 170 triathlons and duathlons (run/bike events) since 1985 and twelve ultradistance (“Ironman”) triathlons, including the Hawaiian Ironman World Championship Triathlon in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1995. She is currently working on an ethnography of the triathlon sport culture entitled The Tri-ing Life: Ethnography of a Triathlon Community. In addition to her ongoing research on participatory sports in the United States, she has conducted extended ethnographic fieldwork among the Tzeltal Mayan and Zapotec Indians in Mexico and peasants in Honduras. She has recently also expanded her research interests in sport as ritual into other types of ritual activity, specifically shamanic practices as expressed as part of “New Age” activities and an aspect of alternative healing strategies manifested in the West as well as in more traditional non-Western contexts. P. David Howe is Lecturer in the Anthropology of Sport in the School of Sport and Leisure at the University of Gloucestershire. Trained as a medical anthropologist, he is currently completing a book entitled “Pain, Injury, and the Culture of Risk.” His research interests also include the impact of sport on marginalized communities, particularly those involving athletes with impairment. 262 ATHLETIC INTRUDERS Barbara Joans holds a Ph.D. from CUNY Graduate School and is an American Anthropologist specializing in urban, legal, and subcultural anthropology. She is Director...