Abstract

Benschop and Verloo argue that while feminist theories are primarily used in management and organization research when the central focus is on gender, they have applicability beyond social power relations. Similarly, we contend that explicit feminist theorizing is also not common in sport management journals and when feminist theories are used they are rarely employed outside research on diversity/gender. In this chapter we explore how scholarship in sport management employs feminist theorizing. We comment on the use of four strands of feminism liberal, socialist, social-constructionist and poststructural/queer) and offer suggestions as to how a more frequent use of these feminist perspectives could enrich sport management research not only in the study of diversity but also in general theorizing.