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  • Fair Play

    How Sports Shape the Gender Debates

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    Hockey's Toxic Culture and How to Fix It

    A bracing call to arms for hockey fans, players, and coaches everywhere Those who have been lured by the the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decisions, and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world. It's all-consuming and exhilarating, boasting its own language and complex morality code. Yet in ... Leer más

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  • On the Edge

    Women Making Hockey History

    Using personal accounts from star players, interviews with sport insiders and striking photographs, On the Edge provides a dramatic look into the business and politics of women's hockey. ... Leer más

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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

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  • Unsportsmanlike Conduct

    College Football and the Politics of Rape

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  • Fair and Foul

    Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

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  • Beyond Trans

    Does Gender Matter?

    Series Libro 2 - LGBTQ Politics
    Goes beyond the category of transgender to question the need for gender classificationBeyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do they serve a real purpose or ... Leer más

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  • Game Over

    How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down

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  • Stickhandling through the Margins

    First Nations Hockey in Canada

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