02016nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100002700060245012500087260002800212300003000240520143700270773002801707906001101735942000701746952010501753  c526354d526354240530b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSharma, Shruti 953174  aUnpacking frailty and gendered rules of sport: Women cricketers’ experiences of practice and play in Rajasthan, India.  aSociological Bulletin    a73(1), Jan, 2024: p.46-64  aSport has historically furthered the myth of female frailty by making it the basis for women’s exclusion from early participation, and hitherto, for inclusion on restricted conditions. The article focuses on the gendered rules of play in cricket which manifest materially by altering an object, the space and temporality of play translating into the use of a smaller ball within a shorter boundary and lesser hours of playtime for women in comparison to men. While the historical and existing justifications for each of the differences in rules revolve around varied meanings of what ‘being frail’ entails for women, the supposed easing of conditions is also expected to encourage and enable women to emulate men’s style of play, and hence, make their game ‘exciting’. Drawing from fieldwork and interviews of women cricketers who represent the state of Rajasthan (India) in the Board of Control for Cricket in India domestic tournaments, the article unpacks the on-ground manifestation of the three gendered rules to argue that the altered nature of play makes the women’s version more challenging and hence, distinct and separate from the men’s version and its valuations. Foregrounding women’s layered experiences, the article shows the way women play sport cannot be captured within the imposed binary logic of frail and non-frail.- Reproduced 

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