Intersectionality , wellbeing and women's experiences of rock climbing

尽管攀岩是一项发展迅速的运动，但关于性别和攀岩的研究是有限的，英国有100万人在室内独立攀岩，攀岩将在2021年奥运会上首次亮相。虽然研究强调女性登山者积极挑战男性主导地位，以及社会对女性气质和女性适当身体活动的典型观念，但这项工作中历史和当代形式的主要叙述来自白色，身体健全，富裕和来自全球北方的女性。参加体育运动对妇女的健康和福祉的好处是有争议的。没有研究详细探讨女性攀岩体验的幸福感方面或女性攀岩者体验的多样性。交叉性需要对妇女的幸福感和攀岩的性别体验进行理解，以探索性别、种族和阶级关系如何塑造不平等模式，并了解攀岩空间如何在性别/种族/阶级权力方面进行谈判（Valentine，2007年）。这项研究将探讨妇女的生活幸福和攀岩的交叉经验。通过生活史研究，将创建一个当代女性攀岩档案，将不同女性的幸福生活经历置于女性差异和攀岩多样性的关键历史之上（Smith，2008;里奇，2015; Sommer和Quinlan，2018）。

Intersectionality, Wellbeing and Women's Experiences of Rock ClimbingResearch on gender and rock climbing is limited, despite climbing being a rapidly developing sport, with 1 million people in the UK climbing independently indoors and climbing set to debut at the Olympics in 2021. Whilst studies highlight that female climbers actively challenge male dominance, as well as society's typical notions of femininity and female appropriate physical activity the dominant narratives in this work in historical and contemporary forms are from women who are white, able-bodied, wealthy and from the Global North. The health and wellbeing benefits of sporting participation for women are contested. No studies explore in detail the wellbeing aspect of the female climbing experience or the diversity of experiences of female climbers. Intersectionality needs to frame an understanding of women's gendered experiences of wellbeing and rock-climbing to explore the ways that relations of gender, race and class shape patterns of inequality and understand how climbing spaces are negotiated in terms of gender/race/class power (Valentine, 2007). This study will explore women's lived intersectional experiences of wellbeing and rock climbing. Through life history research, a contemporary female rock-climbing archive will be created, situating diverse women's lived experiences of wellbeing against a critical history of female difference and diversity in climbing (Smith, 2008; Ritchie, 2015; Sommer and Quinlan, 2018).