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Understanding lifestyle sports : consumption, identity, and difference / Belinda Wheaton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge critical studies in sportPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415259541
  • 9780415259545
  • 041525955X
  • 9780415259552
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.046 22
LOC classification:
  • GV749.7 .W43 2004
Contents:
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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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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