Higher Goals
Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender
Gebonden Engels 2000 9780791446416Samenvatting
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 account of the "Blades," a Canadian team that plays at the highest levels of women's hockey. With a vivid depiction of life on the Blades, the book follows the team over two seasons, tracing their journey to a national championship. Key issues in the sociology of sport and gender studies are explored, including the construction of community among women athletes; the "feminine apologetic" and pressures on athletes to conform to feminine ideals; homophobia and the experiences of lesbian athletes; and physicality and women's experience in contact sports.
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Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Abbreviations
1. The Blades, Women's Ice Hockey, and Paradoxes of Gender
2. Competitive Dominance, Class, and the Organization of Women's Hockey
3. The Dynamics of Team Life: This Team Is about What Happens on the Ice
4. The Everyday World of Elite Women's Hockey
5. The Politics of Gender
6. The Change Room and the Construction of Community
7. Physicality, Body Contact, and the Construction of Women's Hockey
8. Gender, Sport, and the Construction of Difference
9. Female Gladiators and the Road Ahead
Notes
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan