Women, Gender and Sport in Africa February 24-25, 2006

Keynote Carol Bellamy(Bio) President World Learning and School for International Training Former Executive Director of the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) "The Serious Business of Play"
The Image of the Body
	Suzan Baller Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany) Sports and the Performance of Masculinities in Urban Senegal
	Irene Peano University of Cambridge (England) Wrestling Masculities - Metaphors of Purity and Metonymical Bodies in Senegalese Arenas
	Peter Alegi Michigan State University Race, Beauty, and Competition: Historicizing Beauty Pageants in South Africa, 1952-2005
Women as Athletic Participants
	Jennifer Hustwitt and Kira Manser Brown University Women’s Rugby Tackling Connections: The Power of International Interaction
	Ennie Laurah Mercy Ndoro Women’s University in Africa (WUA) (Zimbabwe) The Role of Sport in Girl Child Empowerment in Schools: A Case For Visitation High School In Zimbabwe
	Sarah Hillyer and Ashleigh Huffman Global Sports Partners and University of Tennessee What’s Being Done for Muslim Women in Sport?
Sports and Development
	Marianne Meier Swiss Academy for Development SAD (Switzerland) Promoting Gender Equity Through Sport
	Rob Myres Mondesa Youth Opportunities NGO Mondesa Youth Opportunities: Changing our Community, One Child at the Time
	Pelle Kvalsund Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sport International Toolkit for Sport and Development
	Priscilla Karuru Ohio University Scoring for Social Change: Mathare Youth Sports Association Girls Team in Kenya
Organizations and Gender in African Sport
	Bathseba Opini University of Toronto Disabled women/girls and sports in Africa: Can educational institutions make a difference?
	Kimberly Bodey Indiana State University Organizational justice: A Case Study of Female Sport Managers in Morocco
	Scott Youngstedt Saginaw Valley State University Francophonie Games 2005
Borders and International Implications
	Assan Sarr Michigan State University What happens when neighbors meet in the field to compete?: Sports and trans-border conflicts in post colonial Sene-Gambia.
	Selam G-Alemayo Ohio University The Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA)
	Lewis Chongwani Ohio University Trading” in African athletes: Sporting success or modern slave trade in the hands of powerful forces
	Douglas Mpondi Ohio University Women, race and sports in Zimbabwe