Women’s Careers in Mountaineering - Prof. Emmanuelle Tulle (Pt 2) - Meaningful Sport Series

Historically, mountaineering has been a masculine space where women have been marginalised if not completely excluded. Yet, like in many other physical cultures, women's participation has recently been increasing.

What allowed women to develop careers in mountaineering? How do men and women draw on gender narratives to make meaning of their experiences on the mountains? And finally, does women’s presence in the mountaineering constitute a disruption of the masculine culture and are women-only clubs needed?

The conversation you are about to hear is the second part of our recording session with Professor Emmanuelle Tulle from Glasgow Caledonian University. She is one of the leading scholars in theorising how older people make sense of and manage the process of bodily ageing from a cultural perspective. 

The first part focused on Prof. Tulle's earlier work on Veteran runners and sport in later life more generally. Since we focus on a different topic in this second section, it is not necessary to listen to that previous part before this one.

Articles we discuss in the podcast include: 

Becoming a hillwalker: incorporating history in understandings of physical activity

[Article on Women's Careers in Mountaineering under review - link to be added later]