Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby

Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence

Maddie Breeze (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

195 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-50483-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.10.2015
Reihe/Serie	Leisure Studies in a Global Era
Zusatzinfo	XI, 195 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-137-50483-8 / 1137504838
ISBN-13	978-1-137-50483-8 / 9781137504838
Zustand	Neuware