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Sport, masculinities and the body

This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Through participant observations, sporting life-history interviews, and research with children, Wellard highlights the social processes which impact upon individual constructions and formulations of masculine identity and revi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wellard, Ian.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, c2009.
Series:Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 1.
Subjects:
Sports > Sociological aspects.
Sports > Physiological aspects.
Masculinity.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in sports.
Human body > Social aspects.
Human body > Symbolic aspects.
Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Sociology of Sports.
Electronic books.
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Summary:This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Through participant observations, sporting life-history interviews, and research with children, Wellard highlights the social processes which impact upon individual constructions and formulations of masculine identity and reviews these in relation to broader debates on gender, embodiment and sporting participation.
Physical Description:1 online resource (165 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-162) and index.
ISBN:9780203874400 (electronic bk.)
0203874404 (electronic bk.)

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