Maddie Breeze

Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby

Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-50483-8
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 195
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9781137504838
• ISBN-10: 1137504838
• Artikelnr.: 42801331

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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