Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby: Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence

by Maddie Breeze

Overview

This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization and the mid-ranges of agency between dichotomies of voluntarism and determinism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137504852
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	10/29/2015
Series:	Leisure Studies in a Global Era
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	195
File size:	259 KB

About the Author

Maddie Breeze is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is interested in gender sociology, feminist and post-structuralist theory, and qualitative research methods. She is currently investigating the emotional and relational aspects of young people's political engagement in post-referendum Scotland.

Table of Contents

1. A sport for women who don't like sport?
2. Beginnings: How weird it was back in the day
3. Becomings: More structured and more of a sport
4. Just a big sexy joke?
5. Making it up
6. Non-/seriousness: Playing the game and changing the rules