Sport, society & culture in New Zealand /

Sport, society & culture in New Zealand / Sport, society and culture in New Zealand edited by Brad Patterson. - 183 pages ; 21 cm

"This book collects 16 papers from the Stout Research Centre conference The real level playing field?: sport, society and culture, held in October 1998"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Editor's note / Sport and national identity : race relations, business, professionalism / Screw sessions : the pleasures of hammering the hell out of ourselves and others / Death of a dream : the fact and fictions of Jack Lovelock / New Zealanders' attitudes to sport as illustrated by debate over rugby contacts with South Africa / 'Ex-pats' and 'poofters' rebuild the nation : 1982, Kiwi culture and the All Whites on the road to Spain / New Zealand's wicket women / The missing literature / Legacy of 'The Tour' : a continued analysis of women's relationship to sport / Sport, the media and New Zealand / Tall cows, sacred poppies and the fallible pantheon / 'On the ball' : New Zealand's rugby song / Clashes of cultures and class : the jockeys' strike of 1920 / Literature, journalism and sport in New Zealand / Nineteenth-century women on bicycles redefine respectability / Sport, class and community in canterbury, 1850-1880 : the evidence from Rowing / Fishing for empire : sport and travel in New Zealand from the 1870s to the 1930s / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Brad Patterson -- Chris Laidlaw -- Brian Turner -- James McNeish -- Trevor Richards -- Bill Keane -- Adrienne Simpson -- Lloyd Jones -- Shane M. Thompson -- Patrick Day -- Michael Grimshaw -- Allan Thomas -- David Grant -- Roger Robinson -- Clare Simpson -- Geoffrey T. Vincent -- Lydia Wevers. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

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