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Sport, power, and society: institutions and practices : a reader
Publisher
Westview Press
Publication Date
c2010
Language
English
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From the Book
Public dollars, private stadiums, and democracy / Kevin J. Delaney and Rick Eckstein
May the best team win : making baseball competitive / Andrew Zimbalist
Rooting the home team : why the Packers won't leave and why the Browns did / David Morris and Daniel Kraker
America's fast growing sport / Brian O'Keefe and Julie Schlosser
Building a mini metropolis known as the U.S. Open / Bill Pennington
Money, myth and the big match : the political economy of the sports media / David Rowe
Losing control of the ball : the political economy of football and the media in Australia / Murray Phillips and Brett Hutchins
The global sport mass media oligopoly : the three usual suspects and more / Alan Law, Jean Harvey, and Stuart Kemp
Football, television, and the Supreme Court : how a decision 20 years ago brought commercialization to the world of college sports / Welch Suggs
Marketers are joining the varsity / Stuart Elliott
Who's playing college sports? Trends in participation / John Cheslock
The game of life : taking stock / James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen
Race, cultural capital, and the educational effects of participation in sports / Tamela McNulty Eitle and David Eitle
High school football : deep in the heart of South Tejas / Douglas Foley
Odd jobs help college teams stay afloat / Teddy Kider
Where are the jocks for justice? / Kelly Candale and Peter Dreier
Sport, masculinity, and Black cultural resistance / Ben Carrington
Televised sport, masculinist moral capital, and support for the invasion of Iraq / Carl Stempel
Gay games or gay olympics? Implications for lesbian inclusion / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Argentina's left-wingers / Leslie Ray
Carlos Delgado stands up to war / Dave Zirin
Emotionality in the stands and in the field : expressing self through baseball / Nick Trujillo and Bob Krizek
Joe Louis uncovers dynamite / Richard Wright
Supporters, followers, fans, and flâneurs : a taxonomy of spectator identities in football / Richard Giulianotti
Something about baseball : gentrification, race sponsorship, and competing class cultures in neighborhood boys' baseball / Sherri Grasmuck
Hardball ain't the only game in Brooklyn anymore / Lee Jenkins and Michael Schmidt
Making sense of muscle : the body experiences of collegiate women athletes / Molly George
Managing bodily capital / Loïc Wacquant
Hindu nationalism, cultural spaces, and bodily practices in India / Ian McDonald
Athletes embrace size, rejecting stereotypes / Jeré Longman
Male athletes, injuries, and violence / Michael A. Messner
The structure of sport and participant violence / John Schneider and D. Stanley Eitzen
On-field player violence / Randall Collins
Backtalk : violence, redemption and the cost of sports / Robert Lipsyte.
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9780813344874
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