Higher Goals
Subtitle: Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender (Suny Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780791446423
Subjects: Ice hockey; Women's studies; Sports & Recreation; Racquetball; Hockey - General; Sports; Canada; Sex discrimination in sports; Gender Studies; Women hockey players; Lacrosse; Case studies; Hockey for women; Social aspects; Social conditions
Description: "Higher Goals provides an ethnographic account of the "Blades," a Canadian team that plays at the highest levels of women's hockey. With a vivid depiction of life on the Blades, the book follows the team over two seasons, tracing their journey to a national championship.

Key issues in the sociology of sport and gender studies are explored, including the construction of community among women athletes; the "feminine apologetic" and pressures on athletes to conform to feminine ideals; homophobia and the experiences of lesbian athletes; and physicality and women's experience in contact sports."--BOOK JACKET.