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  • No Slam Dunk

    Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change

    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal participation for young people, the far lower pay for most elite-level women athletes, and the continuing dearth of fair and equal media coverage all ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Fair and Foul

    Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

    Sport is a pervasive aspect of US society. Most children in the U.S. are involved in organized sport and it's the subject of much conversation, media content, leisure activity, and discretionary spending. There is a growing number of broadcast networks, online news sites, social media accounts, and streaming platforms devoted to covering sports that fans consume with keen interest. But do we truly ... Leer más

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  • Child's Play

    Sport in Kids' Worlds

    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic. Child’s Play presents a more nuanced examination of the issue, considering not only the physical impacts of youth athletics, but its ... Leer más

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  • Serving Equality

    Feminism, Media, and Women’s Sports

    Series Libro 7 - Communication, Sport, and Society
    Serving Equality: Feminism, Media, and Women’s Sports offers a much-needed methodological innovation to sports media research by expanding the focus beyond traditional sports media outlets to examine the diversity of media outlets writing about sports. In doing so, Serving Equality draws analytical attention to the ways in which feminism and feminist principles such as equality, progress, ... Leer más

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  • Learning Culture through Sports

    Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports

    In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context for probing the sociological basis of this influence. The book's sections each address a ... Leer más

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  • Taking The Field

    Women, Men, and Sports

    In the past, when sport simply excluded girls, the equation of males with active athletic power and of females with weakness and passivity seemed to come easily, almost naturally. Now, however, with girls’ and women’s dramatic movement into sport, the process of exclusion has become a bit subtler, a bit more complicated-and yet, as Michael Messner shows us in this provocative book, no less ... Leer más

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  • Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap

    Hockey’s Agents of Change

    Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap challenges hockey’s norms, pushes its boundaries, and provides new ways of conceptualizing its role in North American culture. The editors of this engaging interdisciplinary collection use the metaphor of the neutral zone trap to explore the ways that hockey’s culture and structures work to exclude marginalized people. The book features both personal and scholarly ... Leer más

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  • Youth Culture and Sport

    Identity, Power, and Politics

    Series series Critical Youth Studies
    Youth Culture and Sport critically interrogates and challenges contemporary articulations of race, class, gender, and sexual relations circulating throughout popular iterations of youth sporting culture in late-capitalism. Written against the backdrop of important changes in social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics taking place in corporate culture’s war on kids, this exciting new volume ... Leer más

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  • Power Played

    A Critical Criminology of Sport

    Edición de Derek Silva, Liam Kennedy ...
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    This innovative collection convincingly argues that modern sport can be characterized by unequal and problematic power relations that are inextricably linked to issues of violence, harm, deviance, and punishment.On the one hand, sport is a mainstay of community building, an expression of solidarity, and a means to mental and social health. On the other, there is the star player who commits sexual ... Leer más

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  • Midnight Basketball

    Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy

    Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders—home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls—is where it first came to national prominence. And it's also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion that organizing young men to run around in the wee hours of the night—all trying to throw a leather ball through a metal hoop—could ... Leer más

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  • Sport and Discrimination

    Edición de Daniel Kilvington, John Price ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Despite campaigns to educate and increase awareness, discrimination continues to be a deep-rooted problem in sport. This book provides an international, interdisciplinary and critical discussion of various forms of discrimination in sport today, with contributions from world-leading academics and high-profile campaigners.Divided into five sections, the book explores racism, sexism, homophobia, ... Leer más

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  • MediaSport

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    MediaSport is a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which sport and the media interact. It is written by leading experts from around the world in the field of sports studies, sports journalism and leisure studies.Among the subjects covered are:* sports ethics* sport and race* sport and gender* sport and violence on television* the globalization of sports* marketing sports on the Internet. ... Leer más

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