Mother's taxi
Subtitle: sport and women's labor
By: Shona M. Thompson.
Series: SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Sports -- Social aspects -- Australia -- Western Australia.; Women -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Family relationships.; Women -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Interviews.; Sex role -- Australia -- Western Australia.; Feminist theory.
Description: Mother's Taxi is a detailed study of how women facilitate and service the sport played by others, particularly their immediate family members. It illustrates how domestic labor and childcare done by women provides the space for others to participate in sport, contributing directly to individual sporting careers and generally servicing sport as an institution.

It offers important considerations for studies of sport, leisure, and gender relations by highlighting an aspect of women's relationships to sport which has been largely ignored.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-309) and indexes.