Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby

Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9781137504852
ISBN-13 : 1137504854
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Book Synopsis Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby by : Maddie Breeze

Download or read book Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby written by Maddie Breeze and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization and the mid-ranges of agency between dichotomies of voluntarism and determinism.


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