Iron Dads

Diana Tracy Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Among the most difficult athletic events a person can attempt, the iron-distance triathlon--a 140.6 mile competition--requires an intense prerace trai... Lees meer

Child's Play

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemni... Lees meer

Why Would Anyone Do That?

Stephen C Poulson

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Triathlons, such as the famously arduous Ironman Triathlon, and "extreme" mountain biking--hair-raising events held over exceedingly dangerous terrain... Lees meer

Activism and the Olympics

Jules Boykoff

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• The Olympics have developed into the world's premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibition and a grand display of cooperati... Lees meer

Indian Spectacle

Jennifer Guiliano

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• 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 sch... Lees meer

Why Would Anyone Do That?

Stephen C Poulson

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Triathlons, such as the famously arduous Ironman Triathlon, and "extreme" mountain biking-hair-raising events held over exceedingly dangerous terrain-... Lees meer

Testing for Athlete Citizenship

Kathryn E Henne

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Incidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? What does a doping violation a... Lees meer

No Slam Dunk

Cheryl Cooky, Michael A Messner

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress tow... Lees meer

Lakota Hoops

Alan Klein

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• For over 150 years the Lakota have tenaciously defended their culture and land against white miners, settlers, missionaries, and the U.S. Army, and pa... Lees meer

Activism and the Olympics

Jules Boykoff

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• The Olympics have developed into the world's premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibition and a grand display of cooperati... Lees meer

Kicking Center

Rachel Allison

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Winner of the 2018 Early Career Gender Scholar Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society-South Girls and young women participate in soccer at r... Lees meer

When Women Rule the Court

Nicole Willms

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Winner of the 2018 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award For nearly one hundred years, basketball has been an important part of... Lees meer

Child's Play

Messner Michael

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemni... Lees meer

Changing on the Fly

Courtney Szto

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Winner of the NASSS Outstanding Book Award Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we fo... Lees meer

Testing for Athlete Citizenship

Kathryn E Henne

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Incidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? What does a doping violation a... Lees meer

Indian Spectacle

Jennifer Guiliano

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• 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 sch... Lees meer

Parkour and the City

Jeffrey L Kidder

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passe... Lees meer

Changing on the Fly

Courtney Szto

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Winner of the NASSS Outstanding Book Award Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we fo... Lees meer

Kicking Center

Rachel Allison

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Winner of the 2018 Early Career Gender Scholar Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society-South Girls and young women participate in soccer at r... Lees meer

When Women Rule the Court

Nicole Willms

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Winner of the 2018 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award For nearly one hundred years, basketball has been an important part of... Lees meer

Iron Dads

Diana Tracy Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Among the most difficult athletic events a person can attempt, the iron-distance triathlon-a 140.6 mile competition-requires an intense prerace traini... Lees meer

Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• 2020 Choice ​ Outstanding Academic Title The moving body--pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreation... Lees meer

No Slam Dunk

Cheryl Cooky, Michael A Messner

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress tow... Lees meer

Discipline and Indulgence

Jeffrey Montez De Oca

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Winner of the 2014 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) Outstanding Book Award The early Cold War (1947-1964) was a time of optim... Lees meer