This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization and the mid-ranges of agency between dichotomies of voluntarism and determinism.

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University of Edinburgh, UK

Maddie Breeze

About the author

Maddie Breeze is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is interested in gender sociology, feminist and post-structuralist theory, and qualitative research methods. She is currently investigating the emotional and relational aspects of young people's political engagement in post-referendum Scotland.

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Book Title: Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby
Book Subtitle: Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence
Authors: Maddie Breeze
Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137504852
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50483-8Published: 29 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50485-2Published: 29 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2946-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 195
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology, general, Gender Studies, Feminism, Popular Science in Sports, Sociology of Culture

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

A Sport for Women Who Don’t Like Sport?

Beginnings: How Weird It Was Back in the Day

Becomings: More Structured and More of a Sport

Just a Big Sexy Joke?

Making It Up

Non-/Seriousness: Playing the Game and Changing the Rules

Back Matter

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