跟隨著女性主義在1980年代後在西歐與美國發光發熱的思潮下，國外學者相當注重運動場域中所造就的性別議題，也紛紛承認運動場域的確具有重塑性別定位的特性與能力，尤其在身體形象上，運動與社會對性別角色的期望呈現了不一致且衝突的狀態。但反觀國內有關運動場上的性別論述寥寥可數,目前在運動學術領域中關切性別議題的大部分學者多半從身體意象與參與阻礙的觀點解釋女性與運動的連結，或是由運動場域中對女性貶抑的歷史觀點批判女性運動員所遭受到的汙名對待，較少學者定睛於運動場域本身就是個製造衝突的現場，也極少研究聚焦於比對性別概念於運動場域與其他社會場域異軸的發展，而女性運動員在自我要求與社會要求的拉鋸過程中的自我經驗與角色呈現在研究中更是持續被忽視。為了要彌補這個研究上的缺角，本研究企圖站在一個微觀且批判的立場, 採用女性主義的觀點為主要立場, 並且使用重視文化解釋的質性研究策略, 企圖以多元方法檢視社會成長期望與運動訓練期望交織而成的運動場域如何形塑女性專業運動員之性別認知，其中並聚焦於產生衝突的原因與過程，希望藉此能夠突顯女性專業運動員在運動場域中的性別角色扮演。
Despite some researches that focus on the females’ unequal participation and unfair treatment they experienced in the context of sport, in Taiwan, there are few studies that recognize the sport field as a special place that is capable of producing gender inequity and contradictory identity. Especially when the definition of success is seriously contradicted to the gender image that accepted by society, how female athletes negotiate their performance and take care of their gender identity becomes a sociologic problem. On the basis of this omission, this study attempts to take feminist standpoint and adopt qualitative research in order to expose and criticize the conflict process within the idea of gender that possibly results the unfairness and injustice in sport field. More specifically, this study intends to examine what conflict is produced through athletes’ training process, why the body image of female athletes becomes an object to be blamed, and how their gender identify evolves when they encounter the confusion between social expectation and their professional training. Totally 45 professional female athletes from different varsitie—30 regular, and 15 lesbians— will be recruited for data collection purpose, and the focused group and the in-depth interviews , plus the content analysis of the published figure of female athletes on commercial magazines will be the most fundamental method for collecting data in order to expose female athletes’ voice and situation.