Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-260) and index.

Chapter 1. Introducing sport, gender and development: A critical intersection -- Chapter 2. Doing feminist research in sport, gender and development: Navigating relationships, ethics and sweaty concepts -- Chapter 3. Economic empowerment in sport, gender and development / with Payoshni Mitra -- Chapter 4. Action sports for gender development -- Chapter 5. Geographies of gender and embodiment in sport for development work -- Chapter 6. Entangled human and nonhuman relations in sport, gender and development / with Lidieth del Socorro Cruz Centeno -- Chapter 7. The ethics of visibilities: Sport for development media portrayals of girls and women -- Chapter 8. Feminist approaches to monitoring, evaluation and learning (mel) / with Nida Ahmad Epilogue / Martha Saavedra.

In a context where striving for gender equity in relation to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals seems more pressing than ever before, Sport, Gender and Development: Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories brings together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and local contexts. Including postcolonial and decolonial feminist lenses by drawing upon fieldwork with organizations and individuals in Afghanistan, Uganda, Nicaragua, and India, Sport, Gender and Development reveals the complexities of development and gender discourses and how they operate on and through researchers, practitioners, and participants' bodies. Delving into a thoughtful engagement with the (dis)connections and comparisons across these diverging contexts, this book offers a critically reflexive account of what is transpiring in the transnational sport, gender and development field, while remaining sensitive to the importance of community context and local iterations. Taking up emerging and contemporary feminist issues in sport related international development, this book advances empirical, conceptual, and theoretical developments in sport, gender and development.