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1 online resource (218 pages) |
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Cultural Sociology Ser |
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Cultural sociology.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Series Editor Preface -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Sport, Meaning and Gender -- The Challenge of the Critical Theorist: Gender as Perspective -- Meaning-Making and Sport: Play and Game Theory -- A Cultural Sociology of Sport: Culture as Perspective -- Methodology -- Outline of the Book -- References -- Part I Media, Sport Enchantment and Gender -- 2 Media and Sport Enchantment: Narrative, Myth, and Games of Modernity -- This One's for the Record Books: Game Dynamics and Storytelling -- Entering Enchantment: Sensing the Mythmaking Vortex |
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Transcending Time: Handball and Viking Warriors -- The Generative Grammar: Cognitive Simplifications that Shapes Sport -- The Bang: Codes Generating Vocabularies and Iconic Consciousness -- References -- 3 Enchanted Fusion: Bringing Together Game Play and Gender -- The First Sex of Norwegian Handball: The Iconic Women Warrior -- The Second Sex of Norwegian Handball: Playing Catch-up? -- References -- Part II Socialization, Sport Felicity and Gender -- 4 Throwing Like a Handballgirl: Performance and Materiality -- Handballgirls in the Making, Part I: Performances Shaping Materiality |
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Handballgirls in the Making, Part II: Sensing a Meaningful Universe -- Performative Repetition of Toughness: The Problematics Kindness -- Being Snill on the Handball Court: When the Match Gets Underway -- Sporting Emotions: How Culture Structures Shape Feelings -- The Gendered Significance of the Smile -- References -- 5 Throwing Like a Handballboy: Enchanted Flows of Power -- Reimmersion in Youth: Teens and Parents in Dreaming Disarray -- Agency and Choreography: Carving Out Stages for Serious Play -- The Size of a Handballboy: Corporal Materiality and Meaning |
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Moral Guardian of His Rational Actors: Individual Flows in Culture -- References -- 6 By Way of Conclusion: A Cultural Sociology of Sports -- Reconciliation and Looking Ahead -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"The meaning of sport is gendered--but not always as we might be imagining. A Performative Feel for the Game goes beyond taken-for-granted gender hierarchies. Through a cultural analysis of Norwegian handball, Trygve Broch teaches us how narratives, historical myths and welfare policies intermingle with processes of democratization, showing how sport is not reducible to power and inequality. A multifaceted social and existential sphere is thereby opened up. This is an exciting and intriguing read that will generate a lively debate among sport sociologists."--Anna Lund, Associate Professor of Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden Applying a cultural sociology of performance, this book interrogates how the meaning of sport intersects with gender. Trygve B. Broch points out uncertainties in the causal arguments made by key figures in the cultural studies tradition, instead advancing a meaning-centered study of sports as involving both a social and an athletic performance. Sports not only reflect or reverse social realities, but capture and keep our attention when we use and experience them as a means to reflect on social life, injustice, and hierarchy. More specifically, blending approaches from media studies with ethnography, Broch explores the women-dominated sport of handball in Norway, a country that considers gender equality a basis of democracy. As such, the analyses here show how broadly available meanings about sameness and equality are mediated and experienced through a performative feel for the game |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sports -- Sociological aspects.
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Sports -- Sociological aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030351298 |
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3030351297 |
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