Charlene Weaving
Dr. Weaving hails from Florenceville, New Brunswick. Weaving graduated from Acadia University with a Bachelor of Kinesiology. Weaving played varsity rugby while at Acadia and continued to play during her Masters and PhD studies at Western University. Weaving’s PhD and analysed the case of women athletes posing nude. Weaving moved to the ‘NISH’ in 2005, and in 2007 was awarded the STFX Outstanding Teaching Award for the Faculty of Science. Courses taught include: Ethics & Sport, Gender & Sport, Qualitative Research Methods and Modern Olympic Games. Weaving has published research on the sexualization of women in sport (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, ESPN Body Issue & beach volleyball uniform regulations); gender equity issues (sex verification & doping), and women athletes and stereotypes/frailty myths (pregnant athletes & menstruation). In 2013, Weaving was awarded the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport (IAPS) Heather Reid Distinguished Service Award (and served as Secretary-Treasurer and President for the Association). And, in 2026, Weaving received the ‘University Research Award’. Weaving enjoys canoeing, hiking, snowshoeing and skiing with her family including the two bearded collies: Gordie & Omemee.
Socio-Cultural Studies of Sport, Doping and Ethics, Gender Studies in Sport and Modern Olympic Games.
- Weaving, C. (2025). “Karma is the Guy on the Chiefs: Contextualizing Putting Lipstick on a PIGskin and the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Romance”. Sport Ethics and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2025.2530026
- Sailors, P. & Weaving, C* (2024). “Nature sport’s ism problem.” Journal of Philosophy of Sport Special Issue on Nature Sports edited by Kevin Krein. https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2024.2323088 *authors listed in alphabetical order
- Weaving, C. (2022). “Bahama Mammas: Uncovering the Mountainous Layers of Sexist Views of Breasts and Sport.” Sport, Ethics and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2022.2152481
- Weaving, C. (2018). “Karma Skatera: Nipple Slips, Virtue and Moir, and the Heterosexualization of Ice Dance.” Global Faulty Lines in Olympic and Paralympic Sport.
- Fourteenth International Symposium for Olympic Research, edited by M.K. Heine, R.K. Barney & L. Misener (London, ON: International Centre for Olympic Studies), pp. 125-133
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