Whose Game? - Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports

Demonstrates how fantasy sport offers a space in which its participants experience gendered power while they engage in an active, competitive fandom

About the author

Rebecca Joyce Kissane is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Lafayette College. Sarah Winslow is Senior Associate Director of the Honors College, Director of the National Scholars Program, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Clemson University, and co-editor of Gender in the 21st Century: The Stalled Revolution and the Road to Equality.

Summary

Demonstrates how fantasy sport offers a space in which its participants experience gendered power while they engage in an active, competitive fandom

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Joyce Kissane, Rebecca Joyce/ Winslow Kissane, Sarah Winslow
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781439918876
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-1887-6
• No. of pages: 257
• Series: Sporting
• Subject: Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes