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Offers a fascinating ethnography of physicality and gender relations in women''s team contact sports.

Winner of the 2001 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award

The most extensive treatment to date of women''s experiences in team sports, Higher Goals provides an ethnographic account of the Blades, a Canadian team that plays at the highest levels of women''s hockey. With a vivid depiction of life on the Blades, the book follows the team over two seasons, tracing their journey to a national championship. Key issues in the sociology of sport and gender studies are explored, including the construction of community among women athletes; the feminine apologetic and pressures on athletes to conform to feminine ideals; homophobia and the experiences of lesbian athletes; and physicality and women''s experience in contact sports.

Higher Goals Womens Ice Hockey and the Politics

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    Publisher: State University Press of New York (SUNY)
    Publication Date: 8/10/2000 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780791446423, 978-0791446423
    ISBN10: 0791446425
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    Gender studies, gender groups Gender studies: women and girls Sociology

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Offers a fascinating ethnography of physicality and gender relations in women''s team contact sports.

    Winner of the 2001 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award

    The most extensive treatment to date of women''s experiences in team sports, Higher Goals provides an ethnographic account of the Blades, a Canadian team that plays at the highest levels of women''s hockey. With a vivid depiction of life on the Blades, the book follows the team over two seasons, tracing their journey to a national championship. Key issues in the sociology of sport and gender studies are explored, including the construction of community among women athletes; the feminine apologetic and pressures on athletes to conform to feminine ideals; homophobia and the experiences of lesbian athletes; and physicality and women''s experience in contact sports.

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