Masculinities and the Culture of Competitive Cycling - Jack Hardwicke

Masculinities and the Culture of Competitive Cycling

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Buch | Softcover
VII, 211 Seiten
2024 | 1st ed. 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-26977-6 (ISBN)
139,09 inkl. MwSt

Drawing on extensive ethnographic, qualitative and quantitative research, this monograph provides a novel account of masculinities in an individual sport: competitive road cycling. Chapters present varied analyses on male cyclists' relationship with masculinity, the culture of competitive road cycling, cyclists' attitudes toward injury management, sexual minority and women's experiences in the sport, and autoethnographic accounts of the author's own experiences of being involved in the sport for over ten years. The author also examines how masculinity impacts male cyclists' attitudes towards competition, risk taking and doping practices.

This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in sports sociology, gender studies, and masculinity studies.

Jack Hardwicke is a Lecturer in Sport and Health Sciences in the Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology at the University of Northampton. His research interests include the sociology of sporting subcultures, masculinities, socio-cultural approaches to understanding sporting injury and mixed-method social research. 

1 Rolling Out: Introduction.- 2 Theorising Sporting Masculinities.- 3 The Gentlemen's Club: Cycling and Masculinity in Victorian Britain.- 4 'Don't be soft': Cycling and Masculinity in the Twenty-First Century.- 5 Joining the Peloton: The Cult(ure) of Competitive Road Cycling.- 6 Getting Back on the Bike: Debating Injury and Masculinity.- 7 Winning at All Costs: The Intersects of Doping, Hypercompetition and Masculinity in Cycling.- 8 Out in the Peloton: Sexual Minorities in Road Cycling.- 9 Women on Wheels: Orthodox Masculinity and the Marginalisation of Women in Competitive Cycling.- 10 Crossing the Finish Line: Conclusions.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Masculinity, Sport and Exercise
Zusatzinfo VII, 211 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte Homophobia • LGBTQ • Macho • orthodox masculinity • Risk-taking
ISBN-10 3-031-26977-2 / 3031269772
ISBN-13 978-3-031-26977-6 / 9783031269776
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