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Athletic Intruders : Ethnographic Research on Women, Culture, and Exercise.
Title:
Athletic Intruders : Ethnographic Research on Women, Culture, and Exercise.
Author:
Bolin, Anne.
ISBN:
9780791487563
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (302 pages)
Series:
SUNY Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
Contents:
ATHLETIC INTRUDERS -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION by ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG -- 1. Reflexive Ethnography, Women, and Sporting Activities by ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG -- 2. Just "Tri" and "Du" It: The Variable Impact of Female Involvement in the Triathlon/Duathlon Sport Culture by JANE GRANSKOG -- 3. Postmodern Aerobics: Contradiction and Resistance by PIRKKO MARKULA -- 4. Cultural Expressions of African American Female Athletes in Intercollegiate Sport by TERESE M. PERETTO STRATTA -- 5. Beauty or the Beast: The Subversive Somaby ANNE BOLIN -- 6. A Woman's Place is in the . . . Cardiovascular Room?? Gender Relations, the Body, and the Gym by SHARI L. DWORKIN -- 7. Women Who Ride: The Bitch in the Back is Dead by BARBARA JOANS -- 8. "I Was There . . .": Gendered Limitations, Expectations, and Strategic Assumptions in the World of Co-ed Softball by FAYE LINDA WACHS -- 9. Changing Body Aesthetics: Diet and Excercise Fads in a Newfoundland Outport Community by DONA DAVIS -- 10. Kicking Stereotypes into Touch: An Ethnographic Account of Women's Rugby by P. DAVID HOWE -- AFTERWORD: Pastimes and Presentimes: Theoretical Issues in Research on Women in Action by ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- List of Books in Series.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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