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Higher Goals: Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender
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Higher Goals: Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender Hardcover - 2000

by Nancy Theberge


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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; and physicality and women's experience in contact sports.

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  • Title Higher Goals: Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender
  • Author Nancy Theberge
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 195
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Date August 2000
  • ISBN 9780791446416 / 0791446417
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99057333
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.962

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Citations

  • Choice, 03/01/2001, Page 1308
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2000, Page 54

About the author

Nancy Theberge is Professor in the Departments of Kinesiology and Sociology at the University of Waterloo. She is coeditor of Sport and the Sociological Imagination and coauthor of Why People Recreate.

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