Feminist theory examines gender inequities and research focuses on how sports reproduce gendered ideas and practices related to which aspects?

• A. Athletic performance metrics
• B. Economic impacts of sponsorship
• C. Coaching techniques
• D. Physicality, sexuality, and the body

Answer: (D)

Feminist theory in sport questions how gendered power and meaning are built into the body and its practices in athletic settings. It examines how physicality, sexuality, and the body are shaped, displayed, and policed—covering things like body ideals, how femininity and masculinity are performed in sport, dress codes, media representation, and the ways athletes’ bodies are interpreted and regulated. This focus on embodied experience and sexual meanings is why the question centers on physicality, sexuality, and the body.

The other topics—athletic performance metrics, sponsorship economics, and coaching techniques—are important areas of sport studies, but they explore different questions (measurement, finance, pedagogy) rather than the gendered body and sexuality that feminist analysis emphasizes.