Author(s)

Quanbang Zhang, Jiatong Xiao

Corresponding Author

Quanbang Zhang

ABSTRACT

We conducted in-depth interviews with 6 respondents from Beijing Foreign Studies University, all of whom play either on the women’s basketball team or on the women’s football team. From the perspective of the theory of structuration, we started from individual practical experience and explored the relationship between gender quality and attributes of competitive sports, which reveals the compromise and confrontation between individuals and social structures. Our research found that the diversification of competitive sports attributes is opposed to the duality of gender quality and that the reshaping of qualities in women's sports practice is simultaneously affected by the individual's agency and the structural influence of the social environment on different levels.

KEYWORDS

Gender Quality, Femininity, Sports