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        Critical Issues in Sport and Society

        A Nation of Family and Friends?

        A Nation of Family and Friends?

        Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women

        Soccer in Mind

        Soccer in Mind

        A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game

        Changing on the Fly

        Changing on the Fly

        Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians

        Lakota Hoops

        Lakota Hoops

        Life and Basketball on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

        Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body

        Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body

        Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies

        Kicking Center

        Kicking Center

        Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer

        No Slam Dunk

        No Slam Dunk

        Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change

        When Women Rule the Court

        When Women Rule the Court

        Gender, Race, and Japanese American Basketball

        Parkour and the City

        Parkour and the City

        Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport

        Iron Dads

        Iron Dads

        Managing Family, Work, and Endurance Sport Identities

        Child’s Play

        Child's Play

        Sport in Kids' Worlds

        Why Would Anyone Do That?

        Why Would Anyone Do That?

        Lifestyle Sport in the Twenty-First Century

        Testing for Athlete Citizenship

        Testing for Athlete Citizenship

        Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport

        Indian Spectacle

        Indian Spectacle

        College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America

        Activism and the Olympics

        Activism and the Olympics

        Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London

        Discipline and Indulgence

        Discipline and Indulgence

        College Football, Media, and the American Way of Life during the Cold War

        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

        The High School

        Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024

        by Michael A. Messner

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        ISBN: 9781978839533

        Publisher: Rutgers University Press

        Pub Date: 2025-03-11

        Format: Hardcover

        264 Pages

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        Say Her Name

        Say Her Name

        Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport

        by Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown

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        ISBN: 9781978831797

        Publisher: Rutgers University Press

        Pub Date: 2025-03-11

        Format: Paperback

        146 Pages

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        Black Sporting Resistance

        Black Sporting Resistance

        Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Internationalism

        by Joseph N. Cooper

        Foreword by Gerald Horne

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        ISBN: 9781978839854

        Publisher: Rutgers University Press

        Pub Date: 2025-01-14

        Format: Paperback

        230 Pages

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        A Nation of Family and Friends?

        A Nation of Family and Friends?

        Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women

        by Aarti Ratna

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        ISBN: 9781978834118

        Publisher: Rutgers University Press

        Pub Date: 2024-04-12

        Format: Paperback

        164 Pages

        Rutgers University Press
        Soccer in Mind

        Soccer in Mind

        A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game

        by Andrew M. Guest

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        ISBN: 9781978817319

        Publisher: Rutgers University Press

        Pub Date: 2021-11-12

        Format: Paperback

        228 Pages

        Rutgers University Press
        Changing on the Fly

        Changing on the Fly

        Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians

        by Courtney Szto

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        ISBN: 9781978807938

        Publisher: Rutgers University Press

        Pub Date: 2020-10-16

        Format: Paperback

        240 Pages

        Rutgers University Press
        Lakota Hoops

        Lakota Hoops

        Life and Basketball on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

        by Alan Klein

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        ISBN: 9781978804043

        Publisher: Rutgers University Press

        Pub Date: 2020-06-12

        Format: Paperback

        254 Pages

        Rutgers University Press
        Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body

        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

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        ISBN: 9780813591810

        Publisher: Rutgers University Press

        Pub Date: 2020-01-17

        Format: Paperback

        370 Pages

        Rutgers University Press
        Kicking Center

        Kicking Center

        Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer

        by Rachel Allison

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        ISBN: 9780813586779

        Publisher: Rutgers University Press

        Pub Date: 2018-08-30

        Format: Paperback

        220 Pages

        Rutgers University Press
        No Slam Dunk

        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

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        ISBN: 9780813592046

        Publisher: Rutgers University Press

        Pub Date: 2018-05-30

        Format: Paperback

        314 Pages

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