Understanding lifestyle sports : consumption, identity, and difference / Belinda Wheaton.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge critical studies in sportPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415259541
- 9780415259545
- 041525955X
- 9780415259552
- 796.046 22
- GV749.7 .W43 2004
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 796.046 WHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A290275B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series editors' foreword / Jennifer Hargreaves and Ian McDonald -- 1. Introduction : mapping the lifestyle sport-scape / Belinda Wheaton -- 2. 'Chicks dig scars' : commercialisation and the transformations of skateboarders' identities / Becky Beal and Charlene Wilson -- 3. Death, danger and the selling of risk in adventure sports / Catherine Palmer -- 4. Sustainable adventure : embodied experiences and ecological practices within British climbing / Neil Lewis -- 5. Surfing : from one (cultural) extreme to another / Douglas Booth -- 6. Taking risks : identity, masculinities and rock climbing / Victoria Robinson -- 7. 'New lands'? : competing masculinities in the windsurfing culture / Belinda Wheaton -- 8. 'Mandatory equipment' : women in adventure racing / Joanne Kay and Suzanne LaBerge -- 9. 'Anyone can play this game' : ultimate frisbee, identity and difference / Andrew Thornton -- 10. Extreme America : the cultural politics of extreme sports in 1990s America / Kyle Kusz.
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