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Issue ? 54. February 2016How to Be a Female Football Fan?Jury Ju. Petrunin, Olga S. Chataeva, Asiyat B. BagatyrovaJury Ju. Petrunin — Ph.D., Professor, School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation. Olga S. Chataeva — graduate student, School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation. Asiyat B. Bagatyrova — graduate student, School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation. The following article is devoted to the study of female football fans in Russia and their behavioral motives. The article highlights the main reasons for women to become football fans: the attractiveness of men on the playing field and in the tribunes, fashion, heightened self-esteem of female football fans, lowered self-esteem of female football fans. The authors analyze the relationships between male and female football fans and their mutual perception of each other, focusing particularly on specific traits of football fan’s ethos — such as the idealization of masculinity, sexism and misogyny in female fan behavior patterns which prevents the emergence of a gender-specific female fan community. The authors also point out the specifics of behavior of Muslim women who claim to be football fans (using female fans from Dagestan as an example) combining traditional Islamic perception of women’s functions and behavior with modern football fan subculture sensibilities.
Football, football as a social phenomenon, female soccer fandom, Muslim female soccer fandom, gender identity, sexism, authoritarian values. Comments:
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