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Hoop Dreams on Wheels - Disability and the Competitive Wheelchair Athlete (Hardcover)
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Hoop Dreams on Wheels - Disability and the Competitive Wheelchair Athlete (Hardcover)
Series: Sociology Re-Wired
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Hoop Dreams on Wheels is a life-history study of wheelchair
athletes associated with a premier collegiate wheelchair basketball
program. The book, which grapples with the intersection of
biography and history in society, situates the study in broader
context with background on the history and sociology of disability
and disability sports. It documents the development and evolution
of the basketball program and tells the individual life stories of
the athletes, highlighting the formative interpersonal and
institutional experiences that influenced their agentive actions
and that helped them achieve success in wheelchair sports. It also
examines divisions within the disability community that reveal both
empowering and disempowering aspects of competitive wheelchair
athletics, and it explores some of the complexities and dilemmas of
disability identity in contemporary society. The book is intended
to be read by a general audience as well as by students in college
courses on disability, sports, social problems, deviance, medical
sociology and anthropology, and introductory sociology. It also
will be of interest to scholars in the sociology of disability,
sociology of sports, and medical humanities, as well as
life-history researchers and professionals in the fields of
physical education, therapeutic recreation, and rehabilitative
counseling.
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