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A Performative Feel for the Game: How Meaningful Sports Shape Gender, Bodies, and Social Life

A Performative Feel for the Game: How Meaningful Sports Shape Gender, Bodies, and Social Life

Broch, Trygve B.

Hardcover

Series: Cultural Sociology

Sports GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030351289
ISBN13: 9783030351281
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 22 2019
Pages: 209
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Applying a cultural sociology of performance, this book interrogates how the meaning of sport intersects with gender. Trygve B. Broch points out uncertainties in the causal arguments made by key figures in the cultural studies tradition, instead advancing a meaning-centered study of sports as involving both a social and an athletic performance. Sports not only reflect or reverse social realities, but capture and keep our attention when we use and experience them as a means to reflect on social life, injustice, and hierarchy. More specifically, blending approaches from media studies with ethnography, Broch explores the women-dominated sport of handball in Norway, a country that considers gender equality a basis of democracy. As such, the analyses here show how broadly available meanings about sameness and equality are mediated and experienced through a performative feel for the game.

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