Bolin / Granskog Athletic Intruders

Ethnographic Research on Women, Culture, and Exercise
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8756-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations

Explores women's place in sport and exercise from a socioculture perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bolin, Anne

Granskog, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport, Sportwissenschaft: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG
1. Reflexive Ethnography, Women, and Sporting Activities
ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG
2. Just "Tri" and "Du" It: The Variable Impact of Female Involvement in the Triathlon/Duathlon Sport Culture
JANE GRANSKOG
3. Postmodern Aerobics: Contradiction and Resistance
PIRKKO MARKULA
4. Cultural Expressions of African American Female Athletes in Intercollegiate Sport
TERESE M. PERETTO STRATTA 5. Beauty or the Beast: The Subversive Soma
ANNE BOLIN
6. A Woman's Place is in the. Cardiovascular Room?? Gender Relations, the Body, and the Gym
SHARI L. DWORKIN
7. Women Who Ride: The Bitch in the Back is Dead
BARBARA JOANS
8. "I Was There.": Gendered Limitations, Expectations, and Strategic Assumptions in the World of Co-ed Softball
FAYE LINDA WACHS
9. Changing Body Aesthetics: Diet and Exercise Fads in a Newfoundland Outport Community
DONA DAVIS
10. Kicking Stereotypes into Touch: An Ethnographic Account of Women's Rugby
P. DAVID HOWE
AFTERWORD
Pastimes and Presentimes: Theoretical Issues in Research on Women in Action
ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG
List of Contributors
Index
Listing of Books in Series

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Bolin, Professor of Anthropology at Elon University, competes in amateur women's bodybuilding. Jane Granskog is Professor of Anthropology at California State University at Bakersfield and an elite Master's (over age forty) triathlete.