%0 Journal Article 
%A Sanz Marcos, Paloma
%T Can women escape the male influence when surfing? An ethnographic study of female surfers in Southern Spain
%D 2021
%@ 1743-0437
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/31268
%X This article explores how female recreational surfers in southern Spain
experience a marginalized status within the male-dominated sport of
surfing. The main objective is to determine if there is a male-legitimized
criterion that describes how surfing should be and what is considered
an authentic practise of this sport. The results indicate that there are
certain cultural assumptions originated by men that affect not only the
relationship that women build with this sport at the time of its practice
but when they share it with other women. It describes a scenario in
which women have been deprived of the opportunity to establish their
own criteria to feel identified when surfing. The lack of female referents
or the absence of women in this sport could explain this paradigm.
%K Surfing
%K women
%K gender
%K female
%K sport
%~ Universidad de Cádiz