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Little Big Men
Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction
Häftad, 1993
487 kr
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Little Big Men is a study of competitive bodybuilders on the West Coast that examines the subculture from the perspective of bodybuilders' everyday activities. It offers fascinating descriptions and insightful analogies of an important and understudied subculture that has risen to widespread …
Managing Gender
Affirmative Action and Organizational Power in Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Sport
Av Jim McKay
Häftad, 1997
394 kr
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Evaluates the implementation of affirmative action programs for women in Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand sporting organizations.This analysis of gender, sexuality, and power in sport evaluates how affirmative action programs for women have been implemented in sporting organizations in …
Sport and Postmodern Times
Häftad, 1998
391 kr
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Using postmodern social theory, this book expands our understanding of sport, the body, and the broader physical culture.This book provides critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics discussed include postmodern sport writing; sport and …
Mother's Taxi
Sport and Women's Labor
Häftad, 1999
648 kr
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A detailed look at how domestic labor and childcare done by women provides the space for others to participate in sport, contributing directly to individual sporting careers and generally servicing sport as an institution.Mother's Taxi is a detailed study of how women facilitate and service the …
Higher Goals
Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender
Häftad, 2000
455 kr
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Offers a fascinating ethnography of physicality and gender relations in women's team contact sports.Winner of the 2001 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award The most extensive treatment to date of women's experiences in team sports, Higher Goals provides an ethnographic …
Inside the Olympic Industry
Power, Politics, and Activism
Häftad, 2000
463 kr
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Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games.In a startling expose of the Olympic industry, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj goes beyond the media hype of international goodwill and spirited competition to …
Michael Jordan, Inc.
Corporate Sport, Media Culture, and Late Modern America
Häftad, 2001
618 kr
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Uses Michael Jordan as a vehicle for viewing the broader social, economic, political, and technological concerns that frame contemporary culture.Michael Jordan, Inc. seeks to make sense of a celebrated figure whose public existence illuminates a late capitalist order defined by the convergence of …
Best Olympics Ever?
Social Impacts of Sydney 2000
Häftad, 2002
491 kr
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Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies.Despite International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samarach's proclaiming the Sydney 2000 Olympics as the "best ever," the truth of the matter is much …
Athletic Intruders
Ethnographic Research on Women, Culture, and Exercise
Inbunden, 2003
1286 kr
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Explores women's place in sport and exercise from a socioculture perspective.Informed by feminism and the fields of anthropology and sociology of sport, this anthology investigates women's place in sport and exercise from a sociocultural perspective, documenting women's struggle into the sports …
Athletic Intruders
Ethnographic Research on Women, Culture, and Exercise
Häftad, 2003
487 kr
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Explores women's place in sport and exercise from a socioculture perspective.Informed by feminism and the fields of anthropology and sociology of sport, this anthology investigates women's place in sport and exercise from a sociocultural perspective, documenting women's struggle into the sports …
To the Extreme
Alternative Sports, Inside and Out
Av Robert E. Rinehart, Synthia Sydnor
Inbunden, 2003
1365 kr
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Insider and outsider narratives on the essence of modern "extreme" sports.An international array of authors, including some prominent extreme athletes like Jake Burton and Arlo Eisenberg, look at a variety of issues and concerns within the new action extreme sports that are gaining popularity …
To the Extreme
Alternative Sports, Inside and Out
Av Robert E. Rinehart, Synthia Sydnor
Häftad, 2003
404 kr
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Insider and outsider narratives on the essence of modern "extreme" sports.An international array of authors, including some prominent extreme athletes like Jake Burton and Arlo Eisenberg, look at a variety of issues and concerns within the new action extreme sports that are gaining popularity …
Sporting Dystopias
The Making and Meanings of Urban Sport Cultures
Av Ralph C. Wilcox, David L. Andrews m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
463 kr
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Challenges the unexamined belief that sports stadiums, events, and teams in cities are always beneficial to the comunities.Reaching beyond the popular celebration of commercial gains often associated with the proliferation of stadiums, events, and teams in the city, Sporting Dystopias explores the …
Feminist Sport Studies
Sharing Experiences of Joy and Pain
Häftad, 2005
363 kr
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Uses personal narratives to highlight the development of feminist sport studies.This book highlights the development of feminist sport studies through personal narratives of prominent feminist sport researchers from North America, Europe, and New Zealand. With expertise in sport history, …
Deconstructing Sport History
A Postmodern Analysis
Häftad, 2005
477 kr
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Presents a broad spectrum of critical approaches that question traditional sport history.This groundbreaking collection challenges the accepted principles and practices of sport history and encourages sport historians to be more adventurous in their representations of the sporting past in the …
National Identity and Global Sports Events
Culture, Politics, and Spectacle in the Olympics and the Football World Cup
Av Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young
Inbunden, 2006
1286 kr
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Explains why cities dig deep in their pockets to host the Olympics and countries breed teams for success on the world soccer stage.National Identity and Global Sports Events looks at the significance of international sporting events and why they generate enormous audiences worldwide. Focusing on …
After Artest
The NBA and the Assault on Blackness
Häftad, 2012
590 kr
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Explores how the NBA moved to govern black players and the expression of blackness after the "Palace Brawl" of 2004.On November 19, 2004, a fight between NBA players Ron Artest and Ben Wallace escalated into a melee involving several other players and many fans. The "Palace Brawl," writes David J. …
Outsiders in the Clubhouse
The World of Women's Professional Golf
Häftad, 1995
393 kr
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A sociological examination of life within the subworld of women's professional golf that explores the interpersonal relations between athletes, fans, and sponsors on the LPGA tour and looks at tensions between gender, class, and prowess within the social world of golf.Outsiders in the Clubhouse …
Playing to Win
Sports and the American Military, 1898-1945
Häftad, 1997
426 kr
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Traces the development of U.S. military sports and explains how and why the American armed forces embraced sports as a crucial part of training and entertainment for the men (and ultimately women) in uniform.This book explains how and why the American armed forces embraced sports as a critical part …
Swimsuit Issue and Sport
Hegemonic Masculinity in Sports Illustrated
Häftad, 1997
394 kr
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Explores the cultural meanings of the swimsuit issue and shows how Sports Illustrated secures a large audience of men by creating a climate of hegemonic masculinity.This study of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue demonstrates how the magazine encourages individual and institutional practices …
Critical Postmodernism in Human Movement, Physical Education, and Sport
Av Juan-Miguel Fernández-Balboa
Häftad, 1997
413 kr
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Explores the possibilities of postmodernism in the field of human movement and shows how the profession is related to broader social, political, and cultural contexts and histories.This book proposes alternative ways of looking at human movement and brings into question the traditional role of the …
Mother's Taxi
Sport and Women's Labor
Inbunden, 1999
1111 kr
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A detailed look at how domestic labor and childcare done by women provides the space for others to participate in sport, contributing directly to individual sporting careers and generally servicing sport as an institution.Mother's Taxi is a detailed study of how women facilitate and service the …
Higher Goals
Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender
Inbunden, 2000
1087 kr
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Offers a fascinating ethnography of physicality and gender relations in women's team contact sports.Winner of the 2001 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award The most extensive treatment to date of women's experiences in team sports, Higher Goals provides an ethnographic …
Inside the Olympic Industry
Power, Politics, and Activism
Inbunden, 2000
1111 kr
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Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games.In a startling expose of the Olympic industry, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj goes beyond the media hype of international goodwill and spirited competition to …
Beyond the Cheers
Race as Spectacle in College Sport
Av C. Richard King, Charles Fruehling Springwood
Inbunden, 2001
1087 kr
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From mascots to half-time shows to media coverage, Beyond the Cheers critically and honestly assesses the role of race in big time college sports.Focusing on half-time performances, commercialized stagings, media coverage, public panics, and political protests, Beyond the Cheers offers an …
Beyond the Cheers
Race as Spectacle in College Sport
Av C. Richard King, Charles Fruehling Springwood
Häftad, 2001
393 kr
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From mascots to half-time shows to media coverage, Beyond the Cheers critically and honestly assesses the role of race in big time college sports.Focusing on half-time performances, commercialized stagings, media coverage, public panics, and political protests, Beyond the Cheers offers an …
Michael Jordan, Inc.
Corporate Sport, Media Culture, and Late Modern America
Inbunden, 2001
1111 kr
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Uses Michael Jordan as a vehicle for viewing the broader social, economic, political, and technological concerns that frame contemporary culture.Michael Jordan, Inc. seeks to make sense of a celebrated figure whose public existence illuminates a late capitalist order defined by the convergence of …
Paradoxes of Youth and Sport
Av Margaret Gatz, Michael A. Messner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1111 kr
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Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.Paradoxes of Youth and Sport explores emergent debates among scholars, youth advocates, and sport practitioners concerning the role of sport in the lives of young people in urban settings. Specialists …
Paradoxes of Youth and Sport
Av Margaret Gatz, Michael A. Messner m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
359 kr
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Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.Paradoxes of Youth and Sport explores emergent debates among scholars, youth advocates, and sport practitioners concerning the role of sport in the lives of young people in urban settings. Specialists …
Feminist Sport Studies
Sharing Experiences of Joy and Pain
Inbunden, 2005
1087 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Uses personal narratives to highlight the development of feminist sport studies.This book highlights the development of feminist sport studies through personal narratives of prominent feminist sport researchers from North America, Europe, and New Zealand. With expertise in sport history, …
