Critical Issues in Sport and Society

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Critical Issues in Sport and Society features scholarly books that help expand our understanding of the myriad ways in which sport is intertwined with social life in the contemporary world. Using the tools of various scholarly disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, history, media studies and others, books in this new series investigate the growing impact of sport and sports-related activities on various aspects of social life as well as key developments and changes in the sporting world and emerging sporting practices. Series authors produce groundbreaking research that brings empirical and applied work together with cultural critique and historical perspectives written in an engaging, accessible format.

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Critical Issues in Sport and Society

Critical Issues in Sport and Society features scholarly books that help expand our understanding of the myriad ways in which sport is intertwined with social life in the contemporary world. Using the tools of various scholarly disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, history, media studies and others, books in this new series investigate the growing impact of sport and sports-related activities on various aspects of social life as well as key developments and changes in the sporting world and emerging sporting practices. Series authors produce groundbreaking research that brings empirical and applied work together with cultural critique and historical perspectives written in an engaging, accessible format.

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The High School

Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024

by Michael A. Messner

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781978839533

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2025-03-11

Format: Hardcover

340 Pages

Say Her Name

Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport

by Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown

Price: $28.95

ISBN: 9781978831797

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2025-03-11

Format: Paperback

160 Pages

Black Sporting Resistance

Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Internationalism

by Joseph N. Cooper

Foreword by Gerald Horne

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9781978839854

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2025-01-14

Format: Paperback

230 Pages

A Nation of Family and Friends?

Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women

by Aarti Ratna

Price: $27.95

ISBN: 9781978834118

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2024-04-12

Format: Paperback

164 Pages

Soccer in Mind

A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game

by Andrew M. Guest

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9781978817319

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2021-11-12

Format: Paperback

228 Pages

Changing on the Fly

Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians

by Courtney Szto

Price: $36.95

ISBN: 9781978807938

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2020-10-16

Format: Paperback

240 Pages

Lakota Hoops

Life and Basketball on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

by Alan Klein

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9781978804043

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2020-06-12

Format: Paperback

254 Pages

Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body

Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies

Edited by Joshua I. Newman, Holly Thorpe and David Andrews

Contributions by Mary Louise Adams, Kiri Baxter, Douglas Booth, Kyle S Bunds, Michael D. Giardina, Mariana Clark, Simon C Darnell, Samantha Frost, Simone Fullagar, Pirkko Markula, Mary G. McDonald, Jennifer Sterling, Christopher McLeod, Matthew G. Hawzen, Richard Pringle, Oliver Rick, Jacob J. Bustad, Samantha King, Shannon Leigh Jette, Katelyn Esmonde, David Andrews, Carolyn Pluim and Gavin Weedon

Price: $41.95

ISBN: 9780813591810

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2020-01-17

Format: Paperback

370 Pages

Kicking Center

Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer

by Rachel Allison

Price: $35.95

ISBN: 9780813586779

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2018-08-30

Format: Paperback

220 Pages

No Slam Dunk

Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change

by Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner

Contributions by Michela Musto, Lauren Rauscher, Marko Begovic, Carole Oglesby, Don Sabo, Marjorie Snyder, Suzel Bozada-Deas, Shari Dworkin, Ranissa Dycus and Faye Linda Wachs

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780813592046

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2018-05-30

Format: Paperback

314 Pages

When Women Rule the Court

Gender, Race, and Japanese American Basketball

by Nicole Willms

Price: $38.95

ISBN: 9780813584157

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2017-08-28

Format: Paperback

258 Pages

Parkour and the City

Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport

by Jeffrey L. Kidder

Price: $40.95

ISBN: 9780813571959

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2017-04-20

Format: Paperback

256 Pages

Iron Dads

Managing Family, Work, and Endurance Sport Identities

by Diana Tracy Cohen

Price: $37.95

ISBN: 9780813570945

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2016-05-04

Format: Paperback

210 Pages

Child's Play

Sport in Kids' Worlds

Edited by Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto

Contributions by Don Sabo, Phil Veliz, Douglas Hartmann, Alex Manning, Cheryl Cooky, Lauren Rauscher, Toben F Nelson, Jeffrey Montez de Oca, Jeffrey Scholes, Brandon Meyer, Murray J. N. Drummond, Chelsey Thul, Nicole M. LaVoi, Torrie Hazelwood, Fatimah Hussein, Ann Travers, Michael Kehler and A. James McKeever

Afterword by William A. Corsaro

Price: $40.95

ISBN: 9780813571454

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2016-05-01

Format: Paperback

272 Pages