Men on the Edge - Taking Risks and Doing Gender Among Base Jumpers

Informationen zum Autor Caitlin Forsey is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext In the arena of extreme sports! BASE jumping--where the adventurous leap from fixed objects such as bridges! skyscrapers! and cliffs! and freefall for several seconds before parachuting back to earth--is among the most dangerous and this extensive sociological work analyzes the gender and voluntary risk-taking aspects of the unique sport. With personal accounts of involvement in BASE jumping! this work extends into the early attempts to explain the gendered participation in the sport by drawing on wider debates about modernization! individualization! and community formation.

Product details

• Authors: Forsey Caitlin, Caitlin Forsey
• Publisher: Paul & co. publishing corporat
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2013
• EAN: 9781552665220
• ISBN: 978-1-55266-522-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Basics Series; Fernwood Basics; Basics Series; Fernwood Basics Series
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Other sports disciplines; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries