dc.contributor.author | Capps, Sarah | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-12T19:26:16Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-14T14:29:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-12T19:26:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-04-14T14:29:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11244.46/95 | |
dc.description | Copyright © 2016, The Honors Undergraduate Research Journal, University of Oklahoma. All rights revert to authors. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Today, a quick Internet search will reveal that shooting,
hunting, fishing, mountain climbing, and camping are all
recreational activities that fall into the category of “outdoorsman”
sports. As the name “outdoorsman” suggests, people did and do
associate these activities with masculinity. In such sports, men
supposedly distance themselves from cities and homely comforts.
Some activities demand extreme physical exertion as well as the
exercise of violence and power. Despite such stereotypes, plenty of
women today enjoy these pastimes. Women’s involvement in
outdoorsman sports suggests a trend of women who defied gender
norms and associations and whose participation over time made the
idea of an “outdoorswoman” more commonplace. So when did
women become involved in these recreational activities? Who were
these trailblazers and how did they justify their participation in such
masculine pastimes? As it turns out, women have long participated
in these recreational activities. In some sports, such as mountain
climbing, women were involved from the inception of the sport in
the United States. As outdoorswomen, their actions challenged
Victorian gender ideals which emphasized domesticity for women.
The rise in popularity of women’s outdoor sports both reflected and
helped to develop a new gender ideal, the New Woman. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | The Honors Undergraduate Research Journal (THURJ) is a publication of the Joe C. and Carole Kerr McClendon Honors College at the University of Oklahoma. The views expressed in THURJ are solely those of the contributors and should not be attributed to the Editorial Staff, the Honors College, or the University of Oklahoma. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | THURJ: The Honors Undergraduate Research Journal;Volume 15 | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | Outdoor Sports | en_US |
dc.subject | Gender Stereotypes | en_US |
dc.subject | Victorian Gender Ideals | en_US |
dc.title | Women of the Wild: Women, Outdoor Sport, and Changing Gender Roles | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.description.undergraduate | undergraduate | |