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The most extensive treatment to date of women's experiences in team sports, Higher Goals provides an ethnographic account of the "Blades", a Canadian team that plays at the highest levels of women's hockey. With a vivid depiction of life on the Blades, the book follows the team over two seasons, tracing their journey to a national championship. Key issues in the sociology of sport and gender studies are explored, including the construction of community among women athletes; the "feminine apologetic" and pressures on athletes to conform to feminine ideals; homophobia and the experiences of lesbian athletes; physicality and women's experience in contact sports; the contribution of sport to ideologies of gender; the impact of commercialization on women's sport; and the changing relationship between women's and men's sports.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Higher Goals
• Author: Nancy Theberge
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 195
• EAN: 9780791446423
• ISBN: 0791446425
• ID: 04700913
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Weight: 263 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 149 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. August 2000

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