Credit: Judith Butler by Miguel Taverna CC BY-SA 4.0

The theoretical framework that my research proposal revolves around is particularly on gender inequality. A popular gender theorist that I drew from was Judith Butler. Butler’s work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism and queer theory. One of her works, Gender Trouble, Butler discusses the debates on the socially constructed character of gender, with psychoanalysis and feminism (Butler:1998). This theoretical framework  is important to my research question because it gives background as to how gender inequality is already present around the world. So, it should come to no surprise that it can be seen in sports