Gender, Politics and Change in Mountaineering: Moving Mountains

Foreword
	Reference
Acknowledgements
	Reference
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Contextualising Gender and Transformational Spaces in Mountaineering Adventure Sports and Leisure
	Part I: Transforming the Past: Intersecting Mountaineering Histories
	Part II: Transforming Experience: Intersectionality in Mountain Spaces and Places
	Part III: Transforming Leadership, Participation and Praxis: Climbing the Mountain of Equity
	Part IV: Transformational Pedagogies: Creating New Spaces to Mountaineer
	References
Part I: Transforming the Past: Intersecting Mountaineering Histories
	Chapter 2: ‘That is the Lady I saw Ascending Snowdon, Alone’: Pioneering Women Mountaineers of the Nineteenth Century
		Dorothy Wordsworth
		Ellen Weeton
		Harriet Martineau
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: Troubling the Silences of Adventure Legacies: Junko Tabei and the Intersectional Politics of Mountaineering
		Introduction: ‘Go climb the Himalayas, by all means, by women alone’
		Intersectionality in Tourism and Adventure Mountaineering
		Intersectionality and Mountaineering in Twentieth-Century Japan
		Intersectional Experiences in Japanese Women’s Mountaineering: “Let’s go on an overseas expedition by ourselves”
			Performing Masculinities Through Male Allyship
			Pioneering New Spaces
			Crossing Boundaries of Leadership, Gender and Motherhood: Japanese Women’s Everest Expedition (JWEE)
			Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Race: Creating Spaces of Cultural Exchange
			Pioneering International Gender Equality
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 4: “There is no manlier sport in the world”. How Hegemonic Masculinity Became Constitutive of Excellence in Mountaineering
		Introduction
		Excellent = Masculine: Hegemonic Masculinity as Constitutive of Excellence
		Masculine>Feminine: Hegemonic Masculinity as Exclusion of Women
		Masculine>Masculine: Hegemonic Masculinity as Hierarchy Among Men
		Hegemonic = Hegemonic? Expressions of Hegemonic Masculinity as Context-Dependent
		Conclusion
		References (The bibliography does not include narratives whose titles are mentioned as examples in part IV.)
Part II: Transforming Experience: Intersectionality in Mountain Spaces and Places
	Chapter 5: Reflexive Duoethnography: A Dialogic Exploration of Disability and Participation in Outdoor Adventure Activities and a Mountain Climber Academic
		Basecamp
		Camp One
		Camp Two
		Camp Three
		Camp Four
		Summit Bid
		References
	Chapter 6: “The whole trip I basically had to hide”: A Goffmanian Analysis of Erin Parisi and Negotiating the Gendered Mountaineering Space
		Introduction: Who Is Erin Parisi?
		Outdoor and Adventurous Sports: A Gendered Space?
			Trans* Experiences in Mountaineering and Outdoor Adventure
		Methodology: Procedure and Data Collection
			Data Analysis
		Results and Discussion
		Going Stealth: Defensive Practices and Maintaining Invisibility
			Becoming a Speaker: The Gendered Mountaineering Space
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 7: Exploring the Gendered and Racialised Experiences of Mexican Mestiza: Women Mountaineers Through the Rhizomatic Body
		Introduction
			Mountaineering in Mexico
			Characterising the Rhizomatic Body
			Deleuze in the Mountain
		Method
		Findings
		Analysis
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: (Re)naming Routes: A Tale of Transformation in the Outdoor Rock Climbing Community
		Introduction
		Key Theoretical Concepts
		Outdoor Climbing Context
			Conditions That Make Route Names Possible
			Cultural Construction of Wilderness
			Racist and Misogynist Toponyms
			Laddish/Toxic Masculinity
		Collecting and Mobilising Data
			Name Changes
			Climbers and Organisations Reclaiming and Transforming Climbing Spaces
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		References
Part III: Transforming Leadership, Participation and Praxis: Climbing the Mountain of Equity
	Chapter 9: Climbing Mountains Together: Developing Gender Parity Pathways in Mountaineering Leadership and the Role of Men
		Introduction
		Women, Gender and Leadership in the Outdoors
		Understanding the Issue: Women and Outdoor Leadership
		Supporting Women’s Leadership in Mountaineering
		The Role of Male Allies
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 10: A Critical Postfeminist Lens as a Tool for Praxis
		Introduction
		Critical Postfeminism
		A Critical Postfeminist Lens as a Strengthening Tool for Praxis
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 11: Leave Tracks: Gender, Discrimination, and Resistance in Mountaineering
		Gender, Difference, Similarity
		Discrimination Against Women in Mountaineering
			Cost of Discrimination
			Leaving Tracks: Women as Resistors
			Allies or Adversaries?
			Allies
			Collective Understanding
			Fixing a Broken System
		A Focus on Intersectionality
			Female Peers as Allies
		Conclusion
		References
Part IV: Transformational Pedagogies: Creating New Spaces to Mountaineer
	Chapter 12: Into the Mountain: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses of Mountaineering and Expanding the Relational Field
		Introduction
		References
	Chapter 13: Transformational Learning on the Journey to Mountain Leadership
		Methodology
		Transformational Learning (TL)
		Transformational Learning and the Gendered Landscape
		Women’s Initial Challenges as Mountain Leaders
			Never Prepared Enough
			Following Men Up Mountains
			Building a Repertoire of “Not Good Enough”
		Women Outdoor Leadership Course (WOLC) Rationale
			Impacts, Enabling Factors and Insights for Practice
			Women Only—Not a “soft touch”
			Supportive AND Ambitious
			Connecting the Intra-personal and the Technical
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 14: An Autoethnographic Writing of Mountain Skill Courses
		Introduction
		Autoethnographic Writing
		Methodology
		Memoir 1: Differing Bodies—“I just can’t keep pace”
		Memoir 2: “Why are you treating me so differently?”
		Memoir 3: There’s Just a Different Energy
		Sense Making
			Additional Emotional and Physical Labour
			Unconscious Bias and Sexism
			Women-Only Spaces
		Concluding Thoughts
		References
Index