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The project which is discussed here has been underway for three years and our collective experiences of the research process have been exciting, stimulating, at times frustrating, but above all have raised important questions for the whole research team about doing research into women and sport. This chapter discusses some of the methodological, practical and personal challenges encountered in engaging in a cross-national research project into the experiences and meanings of sport in the lives of women in England, Germany, Norway and Spain.
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Scraton, S. (1997). The Sporting Lives of Women in European Countries: Issues in Cross-national Research. In: Clarke, G., Humberstone, B. (eds) Researching Women and Sport. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25317-3_12
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