Aarti Ratna

Gebundenes Buch

A Nation of Family and Friends?

Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women

Beschreibung

In A Nation of Family and Friends sociologist Aarti Ratna interrogates sport and leisure cultures as a site of common culture. Ratna portrays and analyses the vagaries of British Asian-ness and examines the intersections of class, caste, age, generation, gender, and sexuality, providing a rich and critical exploration of British Asian women's sport and leisure choices, pleasures, and lived realities.

Autor

AARTI RATNA teaches and writes about race, gender, and popular culture, focusing on the sport and leisure engagements of British Asian girls and women. They co-edited Gender, Race and Sport: The Politics of Ethnic “Other” Girls and Women and are an associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781978834125
• ISBN-10: 1978834128
• Artikelnr.: 68488633