Playing to Win

Wanda Ellen Wakefield

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• This book explains how and why the American armed forces embraced sports as a critical part of training and as entertainment for the men--and, eventua... Lees meer

Sport and Postmodern Times

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Genevieve Rail is Associate Professor, School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, and editor of AVANTE . 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. 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. 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. Lees meer

The Swimsuit Issue and Sport

Laurel R Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• This study of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue demonstrates how the magazine encourages individual and institutional practices that create and ma... Lees meer

Inside the Olympic Industry

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• In a startling expose of the Olympic industry, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj goes beyond the media hype of international goodwill and spirited competition t... Lees meer

Athletic Intruders

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Explores women's place in sport and exercise from a socioculture perspective. 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. Lees meer

Sport and Postmodern Times

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• This book provides critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics discussed include postmod... Lees meer

Out of Play

Michael A Messner

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California and is the author or editor of several books,... Lees meer

Outsiders in the Clubhouse

Todd W Crosset

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Todd W. Crosset is Assistant Professor of Sport Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was an All-American swimmer at the Universi... Lees meer

To the Extreme

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Robert E. Rinehart teaches Kinesiology at California State University at San Bernardino. He is the author of Players All: Performances in Contemporary... Lees meer

Managing Gender

Jim McKay

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• This analysis of gender, sexuality, and power in sport evaluates how affirmative action programs for women have been implemented in sporting organizat... Lees meer

Beyond the Cheers

C Richard King, Charles Fruehling Springwood

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Focusing on half-time performances, commercialized stagings, media coverage, public panics, and political protests, Beyond the Cheers offers an ethnog... Lees meer

Deconstructing Sport History

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Murray G. Phillips is Senior Lecturer in the School of Human Movement Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of From Sid... Lees meer

Beer, Babes, and Balls

David Nylund

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• David Nylund is Assistant Professor of Social Work at California State University at Sacramento. He is the author of Treating Huckleberry Finn: A New ... Lees meer

To the Extreme

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Insider and outsider narratives on the essence of modern "extreme" sports. Lees meer

In the Game

Eric Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Eric Anderson is Lecturer on Sociology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York and the author of Trailblazing: The True Story of Ameri... Lees meer

Michael Jordan, Inc.

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• David L. Andrews is Associate Professor of Sport and Cultural Studies at The University of Maryland, College Park and a Visiting Senior Research Fello... Lees meer

In the Game

Eric Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Using interviews with openly gay and closeted team-sport athletes, Eric Anderson examines how homophobia is reproduced in sport, how gay male athletes... Lees meer

Beyond the Cheers

C Richard King, Charles Fruehling Springwood

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• C. Richard King is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Drake University. He is the author of Colonial Discourses, Collective Memories, and the Exhi... Lees meer

Critical Postmodernism in Human Movement, Physical Education, and Sport

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• This book proposes alternative ways of looking at human movement and brings into question the traditional role of the human-movement profession as an ... Lees meer

The Metrosexual

David Coad

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• David Coad is Associate Professor of English at the Université de Valenciennes, France, and the author of Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Mascul... Lees meer