Inside sports [electronic resource] / edited by Jay Coakley and Peter Donnelly.
This is a unique collection of personal stories of people involved in sport. Four main sections are covered: being introduced to sports; becoming an athlete; doing sports, and life beyond the playing field.
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Early experiences : being introduced to sports
- Young children's social constructions of physicality and gender / Cynthia A. Hasbrook
- Through the eyes of youth : "deep play" in PeeWee ice hockey / Alan G. Ingham and Alison Dewar
- Playing sports and social acceptance : the experiences of immigrant and refugee students in Garden City, Kansas / Mark A. Grey
- Late to the line : starting sport competition as an adult / Kitty Porterfield
- Little League mothers and the reproduction of gender / Janet Saltzman Chafetz and Joseph A. Kotarba
- pt. 2. Experience and identity : becoming an athlete
- Rock climbers and rugby players : identity construction and confirmation / Peter Donnelly and Kevin Young
- Making decisions : how young people become involved and stay involved in sports / Jay Coakley and Anita White
- Becoming an international athlete : making decisions about identity / Christopher Stevenson
- Coming of age in North America : socialization of Dominican baseball players / Alan M. Klein
- Becoming 100 percent straight / Michael A. Messner
- The game begins at home : women's labor in the service of sport / Shona Thompson
- pt. 3. Deep in the experience : doing sports
- High school football : deep in the heart of South Tejas / Douglas E. Foley
- Skateboarding : an alternative to mainstream sports / Becky Beal
- Being physical : sources of pleasure and satisfaction in women's ice hockey / Nancy Theberge
- Jay White Hawk : Mesquaki athlete, AIM hellraiser, and anthropological informant / Douglas E. Foley
- College athletes in high-profile media sports : the consequences of glory / Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler
- Fans, status, and the gift of golf / Todd Crosset
- Wives incorporated : marital relationships in professional ice hockey / Wendy Thompson
- pt. 4. Transition experiences : facing life beyond the playing field
- Threats to sport careers : elite athletes talk about injury and pain / Kevin Young and Philip White
- When the balance is gone : the sport and retirement experiences of elite female gymnasts / Anna Dacyshyn
- Moving on : leaving pro sports / Derek A. Swain
- Retiring from the sideline : becoming more than "hockey's daughter" and "football's wife" / Bette McKenzie.