A Performative Feel for the Game - How Meaningful Sports Shape Gender, Bodies, and Social Life (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

Applying a cultural sociology of performance, this book interrogates how the meaning of sport intersects with gender. Trygve B. Broch points out uncertainties in the causal arguments made by key figures in the cultural studies tradition, instead advancing a meaning-centered study of sports as involving both a social and an athletic performance. Sports not only reflect or reverse social realities, but capture and keep our attention when we use and experience them as a means to reflect on social life, injustice, and hierarchy. More specifically, blending approaches from media studies with ethnography, Broch explores the women-dominated sport of handball in Norway, a country that considers gender equality a basis of democracy. As such, the analyses here show how broadly available meanings about sameness and equality are mediated and experienced through a performative feel for the game.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Cultural Sociology
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2020
Authors:	Trygve B. Broch
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	209
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-035128-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Religious groups
LSN:	3-03-035128-9
Barcode:	9783030351281

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