(Izdošanas datums: 11-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978831834)
Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sports offers an in-depth look into the lived experiences of Blackgirlwomen as athletes, activists, and everyday people through a Black feminist lens. With so much research on race centered on...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Jan-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978839885)
In recent years, there has been increased attention towards activism in sporting spaces. A vast majority of these contributions have focused on intra-nation tensions and impact. Yet, there is a dearth of scholarship that has engaged in a theoreticall...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Apr-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978834156)
In A Nation of Family and Friends, sociologist Aarti Ratna examines the complex and dynamic relationships between South Asian women and sporting and leisure cultures. Mining autobiographical insights (as a South Asian scholar living in the UK) she li...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Nov-2021, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978817357)
From the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Many writers use this global popularity to describe the games winners and losers, but what happens when we use social...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Oct-2020, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978807976)
Winner of the NASSS Outstanding Book AwardHockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book examine...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Jun-2020, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978804067)
For over 150 years the Lakota have tenaciously defended their culture and land against white miners, settlers, missionaries, and the U.S. Army, and paid the price. Their economy is in shambles and they face serious social issues, but their culture an...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Jun-2020, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978804081)
For over 150 years the Lakota have tenaciously defended their culture and land against white miners, settlers, missionaries, and the U.S. Army, and paid the price. Their economy is in shambles and they face serious social issues, but their culture an...Lasīt vairāk
Joshua I. Newman, Simon C Darnell, Holly Thorpe, David Andrews, Mary Louise Adams, Kiri Baxter, Douglas Booth, Kyle S Bunds, Michael D. Giardina, Mariana Clark...
Sērija : Critical Issues in Sport and Society
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Jan-2020, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813591858)
2020 Choice? Outstanding Academic TitleThe moving body pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events holds a vital function in contemporary society. As...Lasīt vairāk
Joshua I. Newman, Simon C Darnell, Holly Thorpe, David Andrews, Mary Louise Adams, Kiri Baxter, Douglas Booth, Kyle S Bunds, Michael D. Giardina, Mariana Clark...
Sērija : Critical Issues in Sport and Society
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Jan-2020, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813591834)
2020 Choice? Outstanding Academic TitleThe moving body pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events holds a vital function in contemporary society. As...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Aug-2018, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813591315)
Winner of the 2018 Early Career Gender Scholar Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society-SouthGirls and young women participate in soccer at record levels and the Women s National Team regularly draws media, corporate, and popular attention. Y...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Aug-2018, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813586793)
Winner of the 2018 Early Career Gender Scholar Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society-SouthGirls and young women participate in soccer at record levels and the Women s National Team regularly draws media, corporate, and popular attention. Y...Lasīt vairāk
Cheryl Cooky, Shari Dworkin, Michael A. Messner, Michela Musto, Lauren Rauscher, Marko Begovic, Carole Oglesby, Don Sabo, Marjorie Snyder, Suzel Bozada-Deas...
Sērija : Critical Issues in Sport and Society
(Izdošanas datums: 30-May-2018, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813592060)
In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal particip...Lasīt vairāk
Cheryl Cooky, Shari Dworkin, Michael A. Messner, Michela Musto, Lauren Rauscher, Marko Begovic, Carole Oglesby, Don Sabo, Marjorie Snyder, Suzel Bozada-Deas...
Sērija : Critical Issues in Sport and Society
(Izdošanas datums: 30-May-2018, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813592084)
In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal particip...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Aug-2017, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813584188)
Winner of the 2018 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book AwardFor nearly one hundred years, basketball has been an important part of Japanese American life. Women s basketball holds a special place in the contemporary scene of highl...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Apr-2017, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813571980)
In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck spectators. In Parkour and the City, cultural sociologist Jeffrey L. Kidder exami...Lasīt vairāk
Michael A. Messner, Jeffrey Montez de Oca, Michela Musto, Don Sabo, Phil Veliz, Douglas Hartmann, Alex Manning, Cheryl Cooky, Lauren Rauscher, Toben F Nelson...
Sērija : Critical Issues in Sport and Society
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2016, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813571478)
Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obe...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Apr-2016, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813564456)
Triathlons, such as the famously arduous Ironman Triathlon, and extreme mountain biking hair-raising events held over exceedingly dangerous terrain are prime examples of the new lifestyle sports that have grown in recent years from oddball pursui...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Apr-2015, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813565927)
Incidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? What does a doping violation actually entail? Who gets punished for breaking the rules of fair play? In Testing for Athlete Citize...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Apr-2015, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813565569)
Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K 12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native A...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Jul-2014, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813562032)
The Olympics have developed into the worlds premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibition and a grand display of cooperation that bring together global cultures on ski slopes, shooting ranges, swimming pools, and track ova...Lasīt vairāk