Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby [electronic resource] : Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence /
Breeze, Maddie.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations and Glossary; 1 A Sport for Women Who Don't Like Sport?; What is a roller derby? Rules of the game; What is a roller derby? A short history; What is a roller derby? The case study league; Getting taken seriously; Seriousness in practice; 2 Beginnings: How Weird It Was Back in the Day; In relation to sport; Gendered representations; DIY organization; Constructing narratives; 3 Becomings: More Structured and More of a Sport; A committee structure; Attendance and skill in team selection
'Competitive' and 'non-competitive' skatersBy which skaters for which skaters?; 4 Just a Big Sexy Joke?; Recognition I: New identifications; Recognition II: Inversions, transpositions, and refusals; 5 Making It Up; Made up and make-believe; Fantasy: Licensed transgression; Parody: 'Names' and 'wives'; Irony: Staying on the threshold; 6 Non-/Seriousness: Playing the Game and Changing the Rules; Non-/serious sociology; Research for people who don't like research?; 'It's time to fall out of love with your crazy dream'; Methods as pursuit of serious recognition; Non-/serious research?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Sports—Sociological aspects.
Sociology.
Feminist theory.
Sports.
Culture.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
Sociology, general.
Gender Studies.
Feminism.
Popular Science in Sports.
Sociology of Culture.