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Sport, Gender and Power - The Rise of Roller Derby (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Sport, Gender and Power - The Rise of Roller Derby (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Gender, Bodies and Transformation
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As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts 'derby grrrls' are
pushing the boundaries of gender as they negotiate the nexus of
pleasure, pain and power relations. Offering a socio-cultural
analysis of the rise and reinvention of roller derby as both a new,
globalized women's sport and an everyday creative leisure space,
this book explores the manner in which roller derby has emerged as
a gendered space for self-transformation, belonging and embodied
contest, in which women are invited to experience their emotions
differently, embrace pain and overcome limits. Sport, Gender and
Power: The Rise of Roller Derby presents detailed interview,
ethnographic and autoethnographic material, together with a range
of media texts to shed new light on the complex relationships of
power experienced by women in derby as a sport culture, whilst also
examining the darker relationships that characterise the sport,
including those of inclusion and exclusion, difference and
identity, and competition and participation. A contemporary
feminist study of empowerment, sexual difference, gender and
affect, this book will appeal to scholars of gender and sexuality,
embodiment, feminist thought and the sociology of sport and
leisure.
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