Critical Postmodernism in Human Movement, Physical Education, and Sport

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Juan-Miguel Fernandez-Balboa is Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Northern Colorado. Lees meer

The Swimsuit Issue and Sport

Laurel R Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Laurel R. Davis is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Springfield College. Lees meer

Mother's Taxi

Shona M Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Shona M. Thompson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport and Exercise Science at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Lees meer

Playing to Win

Wanda Ellen Wakefield

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Wanda Ellen Wakefield is Assistant Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University and is a judge with the International Luge Federation (FI... Lees meer

The Best Olympics Ever?

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies. Lees meer

After Artest

David J Leonard

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• On November 19, 2004, a fight between NBA players Ron Artest and Ben Wallace escalated into a melee involving several other players and many fans. The... Lees meer

Sport and Postmodern Times

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• This book provides critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics discussed include postmod... Lees meer

Little Big Men

Alan M Klein

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Little Big Men is a study of competitive bodybuilders on the West Coast that examines the subculture from the perspective of bodybuilders' everyday ac... Lees meer

Inside the Olympic Industry

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• In a startling expose of the Olympic industry, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj goes beyond the media hype of international goodwill and spirited competition t... Lees meer

Little Big Men

Alan M Klein

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Little Big Men is a study of competitive bodybuilders on the West Coast that examines the subculture from the perspective of bodybuilders' everyday ac... Lees meer

Beer, Babes, and Balls

David Nylund

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• David Nylund is Assistant Professor of Social Work at California State University at Sacramento. He is the author of Treating Huckleberry Finn: A New ... Lees meer

To the Extreme

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Robert E. Rinehart teaches Kinesiology at California State University at San Bernardino. He is the author of Players All: Performances in Contemporary... Lees meer

Managing Gender

Jim McKay

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Jim McKay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the editor-in-chief of ... Lees meer

Athletic Intruders

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Explores women's place in sport and exercise from a socioculture perspective. Lees meer

Michael Jordan, Inc.

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Michael Jordan, Inc. seeks to make sense of a celebrated figure whose public existence illuminates a late capitalist order defined by the convergence ... Lees meer

Beyond the Cheers

C Richard King, Charles Fruehling Springwood

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• C. Richard King is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Drake University. He is the author of Colonial Discourses, Collective Memories, and the Exhi... Lees meer

Inside the Olympic Industry

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games. Lees meer

Deconstructing Sport History

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Murray G. Phillips is Senior Lecturer in the School of Human Movement Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of From Sid... Lees meer

Sport and Postmodern Times

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Genevieve Rail is Associate Professor, School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, and editor of AVANTE . Lees meer

Higher Goals

Nancy Theberge

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• The most extensive treatment to date of women's experiences in team sports, Higher Goals provides an ethnographic account of the "Blades," a Canadian ... Lees meer

The Swimsuit Issue and Sport

Laurel R Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• This study of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue demonstrates how the magazine encourages individual and institutional practices that create and ma... Lees meer

Paradoxes of Youth and Sport

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• Paradoxes of Youth and Sport explores emergent debates among scholars, youth advocates, and sport practitioners concerning the role of sport in the li... Lees meer

Critical Postmodernism in Human Movement, Physical Education, and Sport

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• This book proposes alternative ways of looking at human movement and brings into question the traditional role of the human-movement profession as an ... Lees meer

Managing Gender

Jim McKay

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
• This analysis of gender, sexuality, and power in sport evaluates how affirmative action programs for women have been implemented in sporting organizat... Lees meer