Higher Goals
Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender
Seiten
2000
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-4642-3 (ISBN)
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-4642-3 (ISBN)
Offers a fascinating ethnography of physicality and gender relations in women's team contact sports.
Winner of the 2001 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award
The most extensive treatment to date of women's experiences in team sports, Higher Goals provides an ethnographic account of the "Blades," a Canadian team that plays at the highest levels of women's hockey. With a vivid depiction of life on the Blades, the book follows the team over two seasons, tracing their journey to a national championship. Key issues in the sociology of sport and gender studies are explored, including the construction of community among women athletes; the "feminine apologetic" and pressures on athletes to conform to feminine ideals; homophobia and the experiences of lesbian athletes; and physicality and women's experience in contact sports.
Winner of the 2001 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award
The most extensive treatment to date of women's experiences in team sports, Higher Goals provides an ethnographic account of the "Blades," a Canadian team that plays at the highest levels of women's hockey. With a vivid depiction of life on the Blades, the book follows the team over two seasons, tracing their journey to a national championship. Key issues in the sociology of sport and gender studies are explored, including the construction of community among women athletes; the "feminine apologetic" and pressures on athletes to conform to feminine ideals; homophobia and the experiences of lesbian athletes; and physicality and women's experience in contact sports.
Nancy Theberge is Professor in the Departments of Kinesiology and Sociology at the University of Waterloo. She is coeditor of Sport and the Sociological Imagination and coauthor of Why People Recreate.
Preface
Abbreviations 1. The Blades, Women's Ice Hockey, and Paradoxes of Gender
2. Competitive Dominance, Class, and the Organization of Women's Hockey
3. The Dynamics of Team Life: This Team Is about What Happens on the Ice
4. The Everyday World of Elite Women's Hockey
5. The Politics of Gender
6. The Change Room and the Construction of Community
7. Physicality, Body Contact, and the Construction of Women's Hockey
8. Gender, Sport, and the Construction of Difference
9. Female Gladiators and the Road Ahead
Notes
Index
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 281 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ski- / Wintersport |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7914-4642-5 / 0791446425 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7914-4642-3 / 9780791446423 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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