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

Beer, Babes, and Balls

David Nylund

• Hardcover | 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

Deconstructing Sport History

• Hardcover | 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

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

The Metrosexual

David Coad

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Explores the cultural significance of the metrosexual in sports. How do you explain Dennis Rodman's dyed hair, tattoos, and pierced body parts? Why ar... Lees meer

Michael Jordan, Inc.

• Hardcover | 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

Outsiders in the Clubhouse

Todd W Crosset

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• A sociological examination of life within the subworld of women's professional golf that explores the interpersonal relations between athletes, fans, ... 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

To the Extreme

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Insider and outsider narratives on the essence of modern "extreme" sports. An international array of authors, including some prominent extreme athlete... Lees meer

Out of Play

Michael A Messner

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• A revealing look at gender issues in contemporary sport. 2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title From beer ads in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue... 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

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

After Artest

David J Leonard

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Explores how the NBA moved to govern black players and the expression of blackness after the "Palace Brawl" of 2004. On November 19, 2004, a fight bet... Lees meer

Olympic Industry Resistance

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• A critical look at the Olympics in the postbribery, post-9/11 era, particularly at consequences for host cities and so-called "Olympic education" for ... Lees meer

In the Game

Eric Anderson

• Hardcover | 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

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
• Explores the cultural significance of the metrosexual in sports. How do you explain Dennis Rodman's dyed hair, tattoos, and pierced body parts? Why ar... 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

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