Understanding lifestyle sports : consumption, identity, and difference /

Wheaton, Belinda, 1966-

Understanding lifestyle sports : consumption, identity, and difference / Belinda Wheaton. - xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Routledge critical studies in sport . - Routledge critical studies in sport. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series editors' foreword / Introduction : mapping the lifestyle sport-scape / 'Chicks dig scars' : commercialisation and the transformations of skateboarders' identities / Death, danger and the selling of risk in adventure sports / Sustainable adventure : embodied experiences and ecological practices within British climbing / Surfing : from one (cultural) extreme to another / Taking risks : identity, masculinities and rock climbing / 'New lands'? : competing masculinities in the windsurfing culture / 'Mandatory equipment' : women in adventure racing / 'Anyone can play this game' : ultimate frisbee, identity and difference / Extreme America : the cultural politics of extreme sports in 1990s America / Jennifer Hargreaves and Ian McDonald -- Belinda Wheaton -- Becky Beal and Charlene Wilson -- Catherine Palmer -- Neil Lewis -- Douglas Booth -- Victoria Robinson -- Belinda Wheaton -- Joanne Kay and Suzanne LaBerge -- Andrew Thornton -- Kyle Kusz. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Extreme sports--Sociological aspects
Identity (Psychology)

GV749.7 / .W43 2004

796.046

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