Everyday Masculinities and Extreme Sport
Male Identity and Rock Climbing
Robinson, Victoria
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
This book offers the first in depth study of this one particular extreme sport, rock climbing, and uses it as a case study to examine at how men "do" masculinity in a sporting environment. The book offers a fresh and innovative perspective on issues surrounding masculine identity, and challenges traditional approaches to sport studies. It also presents new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between the everyday and the pursuit of the extraordinary through sport. Drawing on insights from sociology, gender, masculinity studies and sports studies, this book will be of interest to a broad range of students and researchers in these areas.
AUTHOR BIO
Victoria Robinson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. She has held posts at the Universities of Manchester and Newcastle. Her other books include Mundane Heterosexualities: From Theory to Practices, with J. Hockey and A. Meah, (Palgrave, 2007) and she has co-edited, with D. Richardson the third edition of the best selling text book Introducing Gender and Women's Studies, (Palgrave, 2007).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction * Chapter 1: Theorising (Extreme) Sporting Masculinities * Chapter 2: Problematising Extreme Sports * Chapter 3: Men's Sporting Identities * Chapter 4 'Belay Bunnies': Sport, Gender Relations and Masculinities * Chapter 5: Sporting Inner Lives: Emotions, Intimacies and Friendship * Chapter 6: The Sporting Balance: Family, Work and the Life Course * Chapter 7: Extreme Sporting Bodies * Chapter 8: Taking Risks * Conclusion. Introduction * Chapter 1: Theorising (Extreme) Sporting Masculinities * Chapter 2: Problematising Extreme Sports * Chapter 3: Men's Sporting Identities * Chapter 4 'Belay Bunnies': Sport, Gender Relations and Masculinities * Chapter 5: Sporting Inner Lives: Emotions, Intimacies and Friendship * Chapter 6: The Sporting Balance: Family, Work and the Life Course * Chapter 7: Extreme Sporting Bodies * Chapter 8: Taking Risks * Conclusion.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 184520137X
ISBN(13-digit): 9781845201371
Dewey Decimal: 796.522/3
Library of Congress: 2008030293
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 183
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