- Title
- Of goals and whores: Football fandom and misogynistic songs at the Rufaro Stadium in Zimbabwe
- Creator
- Chiweshe, Manase K
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/453404
- Identifier
- vital:75251
- Identifier
- ISBN 9789956763931
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2011.623170
- Description
- This chapter focuses on the creation and recreation of women’s bodies through songs and chants among football fans in Harare. It offers an analysis of how stadiums are arenas for the celebration and reinforcement of hegemonic masculinities. Football fandom has proved a fertile ground for the display of masculine identities and the stadium has proved a readymade arena for the playing out of these identities. Fandom is a bastion of hegemonic masculinity. Football stadiums provide an arena in which masculinity is constructed around a clear and distinct set of defining norms. Exaltation of manhood is part of football in Zimbabwe. Patriarchal views on women are played out in the game of football through songs and chants. Hegemonic masculinity is performed and reinforced within the stadiums. Vulgar and misogynistic language ensures that watching football in Zimbabwe remains a male domain. The following discussion endeavors to offer a critical analysis of the songs and chants at football matches in Zimbabwe. Such songs and chants have become an important part of football fandom and are expressions of hegemonic masculinities. The chapter offers an analysis of the creation and recreation of woman’s body and its portrayal within the stadiums.
- Format
- 17 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- LANGAA RPCIG
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Chiweshe, M., 2012, August. Of goals and whores: Football fandom and misogynistic songs at the Rufaro Stadium in Zimbabwe. In Sociology Seminar Series, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa (Vol. 17)
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
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