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Author: Victoria Robinson
Publisher: Berg
ISBN: 1847884563
Size: 54.91 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : un
Pages : 256
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Book Description: Rock climbing is one of today's most popular 'extreme sports.' Although many women are involved, the sport retains a particularly male image and culture. Everyday Masculinities and Extreme Sport presents the first in-depth study of rock climbing in the UK, analysing what it reveals about the contemporary construction and performance of masculinity through sport. One of the key concerns of the book is the relationship between everyday masculinity and the pursuit of the extraordinary through sport. Drawing on insights from sociology and gender studies, the book challenges traditional approaches to the analysis of sport.

Author: Victoria Robinson
Publisher: Berg
ISBN: 184520137X
Size: 54.46 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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Book Description: Rock climbing is one of today's most popular 'extreme sports.' Although many women are involved, the sport retains a particularly male image and culture. Everyday Masculinities and Extreme Sport presents the first in-depth study of rock climbing in the UK, analysing what it reveals about the contemporary construction and performance of masculinity through sport.One of the key concerns of the book is the relationship between everyday masculinity and the pursuit of the extraordinary through sport. Drawing on insights from sociology and gender studies, the book challenges traditional approaches to the analysis of sport.

Author: Victoria Robinson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230201590
Size: 75.54 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Social Science
Languages : un
Pages : 256
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Book Description: Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary masculinity.

Author: B. Pini
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137005734
Size: 78.39 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Book Description: This book contributes to the growing literature on men and masculinities, but does so through a methodological lens. It addresses methodological approaches and challenges for feminist and pro-feminist studies of men and masculinities.

Author: Rory Magrath
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030197999
Size: 59.19 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Book Description: Over the past two decades there has been a rapid transformation of masculinities in the West, largely facilitated by a decline in cultural homophobia. The significant changes in the expression of masculinity, particularly among younger generations of men, have been particularly evident in men’s team sports, which have become an increasingly diverse and inclusive culture. Drawing upon work from a wide range of established and emerging international scholars, this handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of the contemporary relationship between masculinity and sport. It covers a range of areas including history, media, gender, sexuality, race, violence, and fandom, considering how they impact a range of different sports across the world. Students and scholars across many disciplines will find the unparalleled overview provided by these specially commissioned chapters an invaluable resource.

Author: Mary Kosut
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412990793
Size: 10.11 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 493
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Book Description: The Encyclopedia of Gender in Media critically examines the role of the media in enabling, facilitating, or challenging the social construction of gender in our society.

Author: David Rowe
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 184966675X
Size: 46.27 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Book Description: How has globalization impacted on sports media? What are the economic ramifications? And what is the future of sports media? In order to answer these questions, this book investigates the constituents, dimensions and implications of the flows of media sport from the Global West to the Global East, and in the reverse direction. At an historical moment when the relative stability of the Western media sport order is under challenge, it analyses a range of key structures, practices and issues whose ramifications extend far beyond the fields of play and national contexts in which sport events take place. The book will appraise and analyse the state of sports television, rise of new sports media, emergence of hybrid sport cultural forms, eruption of sport-related political controversies, scandals and power struggles, mutations of forms of global sport fandom, and projections of the future of global media sport. In bringing together the latest research from across a number of disciplines, this book offers an exciting contribution to the emerging field of global sports media.

Author: Jenny Hockey
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230273474
Size: 39.50 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Social Science
Languages : un
Pages : 256
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Book Description: Mundane Heterosexualities is the first major empirical study of heterosexual relationships. Critiquing feminist debates, and examining heterosexual practices across the last century, this book argues that as a social, rather than sexual category, heterosexuality can be seen as the organizing principle of our everyday lives.

Author: Victoria Robinson
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 0313378622
Size: 70.42 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : un
Pages : 165
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Book Description: This book provides the ultimate guide to rock climbing in the United States, suitable for climbers and nonclimbers alike, covering the technical and physical aspects of the sport as well as the mental challenges involved. • A chronological history of rock climbing in the United States, covering the places, events, and people • A glossary of key climbing terms • A subject index

Author: Diane Richardson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Size: 55.26 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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Book Description: This edition is carefully designed to reflect classic and new developments in the popular field of gender and women's studies.