Sport and Postmodern Times

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Using postmodern social theory, this book expands our understanding of sport, the body, and the broader physical culture. This book provides critical ... Lees meer

Higher Goals

Nancy Theberge

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Offers a fascinating ethnography of physicality and gender relations in women's team contact sports. Winner of the 2001 North American Society for the... Lees meer

The Swimsuit Issue and Sport

Laurel R Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Explores the cultural meanings of the swimsuit issue and shows how Sports Illustrated secures a large audience of men by creating a climate of hegemon... Lees meer

Sporting Dystopias

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Challenges the unexamined belief that sports stadiums, events, and teams in cities are always beneficial to the comunities. Reaching beyond the popula... Lees meer

Inside the Olympic Industry

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games. I... Lees meer

Athletic Intruders

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Explores women's place in sport and exercise from a socioculture perspective. Informed by feminism and the fields of anthropology and sociology of spo... Lees meer

The Best Olympics Ever?

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies. Despite Inter... Lees meer

Outsiders in the Clubhouse

Todd W Crosset

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Outsiders in the Clubhouse captures the experience of living on the women's professional golf tour. Based on interviews, field work, and archival data... Lees meer

Deconstructing Sport History

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Presents a broad spectrum of critical approaches that question traditional sport history. This groundbreaking collection challenges the accepted princ... Lees meer

Beer, Babes, and Balls

David Nylund

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Looks at contemporary sports talk radio and its relations to both traditional and newer forms of masculinity. Beer, Babes, and Balls explores the incr... Lees meer

In the Game

Eric Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Examines the relationship between gay male athletes, sport, and American masculinity. 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Using interviews with ope... Lees meer

Michael Jordan, Inc.

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Uses Michael Jordan as a vehicle for viewing the broader social, economic, political, and technological concerns that frame contemporary culture. Mich... Lees meer

Beyond the Cheers

C Richard King, Charles Fruehling Springwood

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• From mascots to half-time shows to media coverage, Beyond the Cheers critically and honestly assesses the role of race in big time college sports. Foc... Lees meer

The Metrosexual

David Coad

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• How do you explain Dennis Rodman's dyed hair, tattoos, and pierced body parts? Why are there so many athletes stripping for men's underwear ads? Besid... Lees meer

Little Big Men

Alan M Klein

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Little Big Men is a study of competitive bodybuilders on the West Coast that examines the subculture from the perspective of bodybuilders' everyday ac... Lees meer

Feminist Sport Studies

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• This book highlights the development of feminist sport studies through personal narratives of prominent feminist sport researchers from North America,... Lees meer

National Identity and Global Sports Events

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Explains why cities dig deep in their pockets to host the Olympics and countries breed teams for success on the world soccer stage. National Identity ... Lees meer

Mother's Taxi

Shona M Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• A detailed look at how domestic labor and childcare done by women provides the space for others to participate in sport, contributing directly to indi... Lees meer

Playing to Win

Wanda Ellen Wakefield

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Traces the development of U.S. military sports and explains how and why the American armed forces embraced sports as a crucial part of training and en... Lees meer

Critical Postmodernism in Human Movement, Physical Education, and Sport

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Explores the possibilities of postmodernism in the field of human movement and shows how the profession is related to broader social, political, and c... Lees meer

After Artest

David J Leonard

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• On November 19, 2004, a fight between NBA players Ron Artest and Ben Wallace escalated into a melee involving several other players and many fans. The... Lees meer

Managing Gender

Jim McKay

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Evaluates the implementation of affirmative action programs for women in Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand sporting organizations. This analysis o... Lees meer

Paradoxes of Youth and Sport

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Paradoxes of Youth and Sport explores emergent debates among scholars, youth advocates, and sport practitioners concerning the role of sport in the li... Lees meer

Olympic Industry Resistance

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Scholar and activist Helen Jefferson Lenskyj continues her critique of the Olympic industry, looking specifically at developments in the post-9/11 and... Lees meer