Overview
- Contributes the first edited collection that focuses on women and action sports
- Offers original theoretical, methodological and empirical insights
- Examines the multiple workings of power within action sport cultures
Part of the book series: Global Culture and Sport Series (GCS)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Media, Politics and Pedagogies
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Holly Thorpe and Rebecca Olive work in Te Oranga School of Human Development and Movement Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Both have published widely on topics including sociology of sport, cultural studies, feminist theory and methodologies, youth culture, gender and action sports.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women in Action Sport Cultures
Book Subtitle: Identity, Politics and Experience
Editors: Holly Thorpe, Rebecca Olive
Series Title: Global Culture and Sport Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45797-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-45796-7Published: 21 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-68858-6Published: 15 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-45797-4Published: 09 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2662-3404
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3412
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 387
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Gender Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality