A Question of Identity and Equality in Sports: Men's Participation in Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics (Report‪)‬

Introduction: sport as "a male preserve" A plethora of international dialogue focuses on women's access into all traditionally male dominated sports, women's under-representation in competitive sports and in sport governing bodies, the limited coverage of women's sports in the mass media, in addition to debates on gender segregation, women's agency in sports, gender equity policies, masculinities and femininities, difference versus diversity, the engendered body, gendered physicality, corporeality, gender identity, the masculinization or femininization of women athletes in the mass media, and so forth. (Theberge, 1985; Guttmann , 1991; Duncan , Messner, Williams, Jensen, 1994; Hall, 1996; McNay, 2000; Hargreaves, 2000; Kirk, 2002; Scraton and Flintoff, 2004; Dworkin and Messner, 2004; Clarke, 2002; Evans and Penney, 2002; Heywood and Dworkin, 2003; Kimmel, 2004; Creedon, 2006; Hills, 2006; Kamberidou and Patsantaras 2007)