Sport, Gender and Power: The Rise of Roller Derby (Gender, Bodies and Transformation)

Synopsis

As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts ’derby grrrls’ are pushing the boundaries of gender as they negotiate the nexus of pleasure, pain and power relations. Offering a socio-cultural analysis of the rise and reinvention of roller derby as both a new, globalized women’s sport and an everyday creative leisure space, this book explores the manner in which roller derby has emerged as a gendered space for self-transformation, belonging and embodied contest, in which women are invited to experience their emotions differently, embrace pain and overcome limits. Sport, Gender and Power: The Rise of Roller Derby presents detailed interview, ethnographic and autoethnographic material, together with a range of media texts to shed new light on the complex relationships of power experienced by women in derby as a sport culture, whilst also examining the darker relationships that characterise the sport, including those of inclusion and exclusion, difference and identity, and competition and participation. A contemporary feminist study of empowerment, sexual difference, gender and affect, this book will appeal to scholars of gender and sexuality, embodiment, feminist thought and the sociology of sport and leisure.

Copyright:

2014

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

216 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781317051077

Related ISBNs:

9781315610429, 9781472417732, 9781472417725, 9781472417718, 9781472417718, 9781315610429, 9780367600075, 9781472417718, 9781315610429, 9780367600075, 9781472417718

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/17/20

Copyrighted By:

N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Sports, Social Studies, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.