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  • - College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America
    af Jennifer Guiliano
    383,95 - 1.647,95 kr.

  • - Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport
    af Kathryn E. Henne
    464,95 - 1.650,95 kr.

    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
    af Nicole Willms
    353,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    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
    af Rachel Allison
    1.398,95 kr.

    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
    af Michael Alan Messner & Cheryl Cooky
    443,95 kr.

    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
     
    378,95 kr.

    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
    af Alan Klein
    323,95 kr.

  • - Managing Family, Work, and Endurance Sport Identities
    af Diana Tracy Cohen
    498,95 - 2.043,95 kr.

  • - Sport in Kids' Worlds
     
    455,95 kr.

    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
     
    1.653,95 kr.

    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
    af Jeffrey Montez de Oca
    353,95 kr.

  • - Lifestyle Sport in the Twenty-First Century
    af Stephen C. Poulson
    415,95 - 1.650,95 kr.

    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
    af Jeffrey L. Kidder
    368,95 kr.

  • af SZTO
    333,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London
    af Jules Boykoff
    455,95 - 1.652,95 kr.

  • af Guest
    278,95 - 638,95 kr.