Athletic intruders : ethnographic research on women, culture, and exercise /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Bolin, Anne, Granskog, Jane
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]
Series:	SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
Subjects:	Physical education for women > Social aspects. Sports for women > Social aspects. Body image in women > Social aspects. Feminist theory. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Reflexive ethnography, women, and sporting activities / Anne Bolin, Jane Granskog
Just "tri" and "du" it: the variable impact of female involvement in the triathlon/duathlon sport culture / Jane Granskog
Postmodern aerobics: contradiction and resistance / Pirkko Markula
Cultural expressions of African American female athletes in intercollegiate sport / Terese M. Peretto Stratta
Beauty or the beast: the subversive soma / Anne Bolin
A woman's place is in the cardiovascular room?? Gender relations, the body, and the gym / Shari L. Dworkin
Women who ride: the bitch in the back is dead / Barbara Joans
"I was there": gendered limitations, expectations, and strategic assumptions in the world of co-ed softball / Faye Linda Wachs
Changing body aesthetics: diet and exercise fads in a Newfoundland outport community / Dona Davis
Kicking stereotypes into touch: an ethnographic account of women's rugby / P. David Howe.