Sport and Gender Products

Edited by Michael John Gennaro, Saheed Aderinto

Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation explores how sports can render a key to unlocking complex social, political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the Diaspora. Sports hold significant value and have an intricate relationship with many components of African…

Paperback – 2019-04-09 
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Edited by David Hassan, Ciaran Acton

Identity is one of the most theorised and contested of all sociological concepts and sport is fertile ground for an examination of its complexities. This book offers a wide-ranging and up-to-date exploration of the sport-identity nexus, drawing examples from a variety of sporting contexts and…

Paperback – 2019-03-25 
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Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Edited by Aarti Ratna, Samaya F. Samie

The experiences of ethnic ‘Other’ females have – until recently – been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious and…

Paperback – 2019-03-25 
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Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

By Stacey Pope

Women fans have entered the traditionally male domain of the sports stadium in growing numbers in recent years. Watching professional sport is important for women for so many reasons, but their expectations and experiences have been largely ignored by academics. This book tackles these shortcomings…

Paperback – 2019-02-04
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Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Edited by Eric Anderson, Ann Travers

While efforts to include gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport have received significant attention, it is only recently that we have begun examining the experiences of transgender athletes in competitive sport. This book represents the first comprehensive study of the challenges that…

Paperback – 2019-02-04
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Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Edited by Jonathan Long, Thomas Fletcher, Beccy Watson

Social inequalities are often reproduced in sport and leisure contexts. However, sport and leisure can be sites of resistance as well as oppression; they can be repressive or promote positive social change. This challenging and important book brings together contemporary cases examining different…

Paperback – 2019-02-04
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Routledge Critical Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Sport and Leisure

Edited by Laura J. Burton, Sarah Leberman

Although women and girls participate in sport in greater numbers than ever before, research shows there has been no significant increase in women leading sport organizations. This book takes an international, evidence-based perspective in examining women in sport leadership and offers future…

Paperback – 2019-01-31
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Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management

By Kim Toffoletti

Women worldwide are making their presence felt as sport fans in rapidly increasing numbers. This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of sport fandom by exploring the growing visibility and interest in women who follow sport. It presents the latest data on women’s sport…

Paperback – 2019-01-31
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Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Edited by Alex Channon, Katherine Dashper, Thomas Fletcher, Robert J. Lake

Scholars working in the academic field of sport studies have long debated the relationship between sport and gender. Modern sport forms, along with many related activities, have been shown to have historically supported ideals of male superiority, by largely excluding women and/or celebrating only…

Paperback – 2019-01-11
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Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

Edited by Katharina Bonzel, Nicholas Chare

This ground-breaking interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international scholars working across the humanities and social sciences to examine ways in which representations of sports coaching in narrative and documentary cinema can shape and inform sporting instruction. The central…

Paperback – 2019-01-11
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Edited by Vikki Krane

Diverse sex, gender, and sexual identities historically have been pushed to the margins in sport. While there is more visibility and inclusion for LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer) people in sport today than in the past, there still exists bigotry and marginalization.…

Paperback – 2018-12-20
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By Stacy L. Lorenz

This volume examines the cultural meanings of high-level amateur and professional hockey in Canada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the author analyzes English Canadian media narratives of Stanley Cup "challenge" games and championship series between 1896 and…

Paperback – 2018-12-19
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Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives