Research Catalog

Title

Sport and gender in Canada / edited by Kevin Young and Philip White.

Publication

Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Young, Kevin, 1959-
• White, Philip, 1952-

Description

xxi, 338 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Sports > Social aspects > Canada
• Sports > Sociological aspects
• Sports > Aspect sociologique
• Sports > Aspect social > Canada
• Discrimination sexuelle dans les sports > Canada
• Sex discrimination in sports > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. S/he plays sport? : theorizing the sport/gender process / Melissa Parker and Philip White -- Ch. 2. Sport, gender, and research method / Michael Atkinson -- Ch. 3. Cultural struggle and resistance : gender, history, and Canadian sport / M. Ann Hall -- Ch. 4. The public importance of men and the importance of public men : sport and masculinities in nineteenth century Canada / Kevin B. Wamsley -- Ch. 5. Social class and gender : intersections in sport and physical activity / Peter Donnelly and Jean Harvey -- Ch. 6. Levelling the playing field : promoting the health of poor women through a community development approach to recreation / Wendy Frisby, Colleen Reid and Pamela Ponic -- Ch. 7. Doing race, doing gender : First Nations, 'sport', and gender relations / Victoria Paraschak -- Ch. 8. Acting your age? : gender, aging, and physical activity / Patricia Vertinsky and Sandra O'Brien Cousins -- Ch. 9. Sexualities, genders, and bodies in sport : changing practices of inequity / Kevin G. Davison and Blye W. Frank -- Ch. 10. Gender relations in Canadian amateur sport organizations : an organizational culture perspective / Sally Shaw and Larena Hoeber -- Ch. 11. Oppression is the message : media, sport, spectacle, and gender / Brian Wilson -- Ch. 12. Eating disorders, physical activity, and sport : biological, psychological, and sociological factors / Caroline Davis -- Ch. 13. Gender, sport, and the injury process / Philip White and Kevin Young -- Ch. 14. Who's fair game? : sport, sexual harassment, and abuse / Peter Donnelly -- Ch. 15. Hazing as a form of sport and gender socialization / Jamie Bryshun and Kevin Young.

ISBN

• 0195419871
• 9780195419870

LCCN

• 2007617356
• 9780195419870

OCLC

• ocm70062619
• 70062619
• SCSB-5312958

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries