Fair and Foul - Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

About the author

D. Stanley Eitzen was professor emeritus of sociology at Colorado State University, where he taught for twenty-one years, most recently as John N. Stern Distinguished Professor. He was the author or coauthor of twenty-four books, including three on sport, as well as numerous scholarly articles and chapters in scholarly books. He was a former president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and the recipient of that organization's Distinguished Service Award. Among his other awards, he was selected to be a Sports Ethics Fellow by the Institute for International Sport.
Cheryl Cooky is a professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Purdue University. Her research focuses in three areas: gendered media representations of sport; gender politics of sport and public policies; and how gender shapes sports experiences, cultural meanings, and organizational structures in sports. She is the co-author of Serving Equality: Feminism, Media and Women's Sports (2022, Peter Lang Publishers) and No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change (2018, Rutgers University Press).

Product details

• Authors: Cheryl Cooky, D Stanley Cooky Eitzen, D. Stanley Cooky Eitzen, Eitzen D. Stanley
• Assisted by: Michael A. Messner (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2025
• EAN: 9781538175668
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7566-8
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious), Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure, United States of America, USA