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Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby

Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Maddie Breeze

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. A Sport for Women Who Don’t Like Sport?

    • Maddie Breeze
    Pages 1-31

  3. Beginnings: How Weird It Was Back in the Day

    • Maddie Breeze
    Pages 32-62

  4. Becomings: More Structured and More of a Sport

    • Maddie Breeze
    Pages 63-92

  5. Just a Big Sexy Joke?

    • Maddie Breeze
    Pages 93-119

  6. Making It Up

    • Maddie Breeze
    Pages 120-144

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

    • Maddie Breeze
    Pages 145-174

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 175-195
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • 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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