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  • - College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America
    av Jennifer Guiliano
    455 - 1 581,-

  • - Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport
    av Kathryn E. Henne
    467 - 1 581,-

    Incidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? Who gets punished for breaking the rules of fair play? Kathryn E. Henne, a former competitive athlete and an expert in the law and science of anti-doping regulations, examines the development of rules aimed at controlling performance enhancement in international sports.

  • - Gender, Race, and Japanese American Basketball
    av Nicole Willms
    443 - 1 647,-

    In When Women Rule the Court, Nicole Willms tells the story of women who became Asian American sport icons by tracing their beginnings in the Japanese American basketball leagues of California. Using data from interviews and observations, Willms explores the interplay of social forces and community dynamics that have shaped this unique context of female athletic empowerment.

  • - Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer
    av Rachel Allison
    1 647,-

    Investigates a women's soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated centre of US professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, Rachel Allison demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport.

  • - Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change
    av Michael Alan Messner & Cheryl Cooky
    522,-

    No Slam Dunk provides important theoretical and empirical insights into the contemporary world of sports to help explain the unevenness of social change and how, despite significant progress, gender equality in sports has been "No Slam Dunk."

  • - Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies
     
    485,-

    Adding to the burgeoning fields of sport studies and body studies, these essays draw on the traditions of feminist theory, posthumanism, actor network theory, and new materialism to reposition the physical, moving body as crucial to the cultural, political, environmental, and economic systems that it constitutes and within which is constituted.

  • - Life and Basketball on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
    av Alan Klein
    406,-

  • - Managing Family, Work, and Endurance Sport Identities
    av Diana Tracy Cohen
    1 952,-

  • - Sport in Kids' Worlds
     
    455,-

    Is sport good for kids? Child’s Play presents a nuanced examination of this question, considering not only the physical impacts of youth athletics, but its psychological and social ramifications as well. The eleven original scholarly essays in this collection provide a probing look into how sports—in community athletic leagues, in schools, and even on television—play a major role in how young people view themselves, shape their identities, and imagine their place in society.

  • - Sport in Kids' Worlds
     
    1 581,-

    Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health. Child's Play presents a more nuanced examination of the issue, considering not only the physical impacts of youth athletics, but its psychological and social ramifications as well.

  • - College Football, Media, and the American Way of Life during the Cold War
    av Jeffrey Montez de Oca
    458,-

  • - Lifestyle Sport in the Twenty-First Century
    av Stephen C. Poulson
    443 - 1 581,-

    Triathlons, such as the famously arduous Ironman Triathlon, and "extreme" mountain biking are prime examples of the new "lifestyle sports" that have grown in recent years from oddball pursuits into multi-million-dollar industries. Sociologist Stephen C. Poulson offers an exploration of these new and physically demanding sports, shedding light on why some people find them so compelling.

  • - Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport
    av Jeffrey L. Kidder
    455,-

  • av SZTO
    418 - 1 581,-

  • - Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London
    av Jules Boykoff
    455 - 1 581,-

  • av Guest
    344 - 839,-

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