Exploration of Gendered Discourses – An Alternative Theoretical Perception of the Israeli Sports Realm-Juniper Publishers
Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Introduction This theoretical paper aims to shed light on the epistemological and methodological framework that led the authors to explore discourses of masculinity and femininity that underpin societies, specifically Israeli society and the institutions of sports within it. For the most part, men govern Israeli sports organizations, which serve the interests of hegemonic masculine forms. In order to explore unique underlying realities within the Israeli context (such as the discourse of militarization), the theoretical framework might be informed by post-structuralist feminism, which provides a way to analyze voices and narratives of the (predominantly female) “other,” and explore the historical contextual construction of current discourses of masculinity within Israeli sports organizations and society as a whole. This paper introduces readers to the process of narrative revisions, critical discourse analysis (CDA