Footy sheilas: a memoir (Exegesis component)

The Project is about multigenerational fans of Australian football. The artefact is a memoir focussed upon a family that has followed the Collingwood Football Club over five generations. It involves humour, self-insights, and visual and verbal ethnography. It is a family archive of narratives with an Australian narrator's voice. The academic framework is an exegesis that identifies and addresses a gap in the literature about women football fans with a commitment to a football club. The two elements add significantly to new scholarship about narrative discourse, autoethnography and social identity as applied to football fandom and family narratives about it.