Description
Book SynopsisThe closed and discriminatory environment of professional hockey is exposed through an examination of a professional team. Far from the sensational memoirs of those few players who make it to the top, this book offers a bracing inside look at the dynamics of the fastest game on earth.
Trade Review"Robidoux employs an impressive array of ideas from sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and feminist theory to interpret the homosocial, occupational culture of professional hockey players." Thomas Dunk, author of It's a Working Man's Town: Male Working-Class Culture "Men at Play is a well-researched and documented study, offering the first ethnographic study of the lives of professional hockey players. Robidoux completely explodes the myth of hockey players as spoiled and overpaid, and shows the enormous stress the players face, notably those players who are between the minors and the NHL." Jean Harvey, School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa
