Higher Goals - Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender (Paperback)

The most extensive treatment to date of women's experiences in team sports, Higher Goals provides an ethnographic account of the "Blades", a Canadian team that plays at the highest levels of women's hockey. With a vivid depiction of life on the Blades, the book follows the team over two seasons, tracing their journey to a national championship. Key issues in the sociology of sport and gender studies are explored, including the construction of community among women athletes; the "feminine apologetic" and pressures on athletes to conform to feminine ideals; homophobia and the experiences of lesbian athletes; physicality and women's experience in contact sports; the contribution of sport to ideologies of gender; the impact of commercialization on women's sport; and the changing relationship between women's and men's sports.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
Release date:	August 2000
First published:	October 2000
Authors:	Nancy Theberge
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	195
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-4642-3
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Winter sports > Ice hockey Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-7914-4642-5
Barcode:	9780791446423

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