Seriousness and Women''s Roller Derby - Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence

Informationen zum Autor Maddie Breeze is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is interested in gender sociology, feminist and post-structuralist theory, and qualitative research methods. She is currently investigating the emotional and relational aspects of young people's political engagement in post-referendum Scotland. Klappentext This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization and the mid-ranges of agency between dichotomies of voluntarism and determinism. Zusammenfassung This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender! organization and the mid-ranges of agency between dichotomies of voluntarism and determinism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A sport for women who don't like sport? 2. Beginnings: How weird it was back in the day 3. Becomings: More structured and more of a sport 4. Just a big sexy joke? 5. Making it up 6. Non-/seriousness: Playing the game and changing the rules

Product details

• Authors: Maddie Breeze
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781137504838
• ISBN: 978-1-137-50483-8
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era; Leisure Studies in a Global Er; Leisure Studies in a Global Era; Leisure Studies in a Global Er
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Other sports disciplines; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, sports, Gender Studies, Culture, Sociology, Feminism, Sociology of Culture, Sport Science, Sport: general, Sociology, general, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Sport Sociology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sports—Sociological aspects, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Popular Science in Sports, gender;organization;sociology;Sport;women