Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby

Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-50483-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 195 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 3648 g

Reihe: Leisure Studies in a Global Era

This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization and the mid-ranges of agency between dichotomies of voluntarism and determinism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Breeze, Maddie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sportsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport: Psychologie, Soziologie, Ethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Fitness, Freizeitsport, Gesundheitssport Inlineskating, Skateboarding etc.

Über Autor(innen)

Maddie Breeze is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is interested in gender sociology, feminist and post-structuralist theory, and qualitative research methods. She is currently investigating the emotional and relational aspects of young people's political engagement in post-referendum Scotland.