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Higher Goals: Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender

Higher Goals: Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender

Theberge, Nancy

Paperback

Series: Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations

General Gender StudiesGeneral SociologyHockey

ISBN10: 0791446425
ISBN13: 9780791446423
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Aug 10 2000
Pages: 195
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.87 Depth: 8.86
Language: English

Offers a fascinating ethnography of physicality and gender relations in women's team contact sports.

Winner of the 2001 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award

The most extensive treatment to date of women's experiences in team sports, 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.

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