Abstract
The idea for this chapter began over dinner in Vancouver when a group of women, all with a background in physical education and sport, began talking about the absences in the institutional discourses explaining participation and non-participation in physical activity. The available discourses in Australia and North America seemed to come, for the most part, out of social psychology and were primarily concerned with identifying motivational factors which could be measured on various inventories (see, for instance, Eccles and Harold 1991). These inventories seemed to have been administered primarily to college and school students and investigated factors such as self-perception of ability, perceived task value (Eccles and Harold 1991), self-efficacy (McAuley 1992) and sport commitment (Scanlan and Simons 1992).
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Wright, J., Dewar, A. (1997). On Pleasure and Pain: Women Speak Out About Physical Activity. In: Clarke, G., Humberstone, B. (eds) Researching Women and Sport. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25317-3_6
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