Le hockey pour tous, mais pas pour toutes? Regard croisé sur la médiatisation du racisme et du sexisme au hockey

This article analyzes two cases specific to ice hockey in the Quebec media/sport cultural complex that highlight recent shifts in discourses on racism and sexism. The authors argue that sexism is the least contested form of discrimination in hockey, while overt and explicit racist acts are widely condemned. This is not to say that racism has disappeared from hockey. If acts of blatant racism are denounced by the media and sports structures, the same would not apply to forms of blatant sexism, where entire arguments and vocabulary are put into action to diminish the scope of sexism involved in these situations. This analysis also demonstrates the workings of the symbolic development of contemporary North American ice hockey. The reasons for the discrepancies between the public expressions of racism and sexism are that hockey remains a sport where many forms of hegemonic masculinities are still expressed.