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  • Body Panic

    Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness

    by Shari L. Dworkin, Faye Linda Wachs ...
    Dworkin and Wachs analyze 10 years of health and fitness magazines to uncover how bodies are made in popular cultureAre you ripped? Do you need to work on your abs? Do you know your ideal body weight? Your body fat index? Increasingly, Americans are being sold on a fitness ideal—not just thin but toned, not just muscular but cut—that is harder and harder to reach. In Body Panic, Shari L. Dworkin ... Read more

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  • No Slam Dunk

    Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change

    by Cheryl Cooky, Michela Musto, Lauren Rauscher, Marko Begovic, Carole Oglesby, Don Sabo, Marjorie Snyder, Suzel Bozada-Deas, Shari Dworkin, Ranissa Dycus, Faye Linda Wachs, Michael A. Messner ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal participation for young people, the far lower pay for most elite-level women athletes, and the continuing dearth of fair and equal media coverage all ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Men at Risk

    Masculinity, Heterosexuality and HIV Prevention

    by Shari L. Dworkin ...
    Series Book 17 - Biopolitics
    Presents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public health researchAlthough the first AIDS cases were attributed to men having sex with men, over 70% of HIV infections worldwide are now estimated to occur through sex between women and men. In Men at Risk, Shari L. Dworkin argues that the centrality of heterosexual relationship dynamics to the transmission of ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Women's Empowerment and Global Health

    A Twenty-First-Century Agenda

    Edited by Shari Dworkin, Monica Gandhi, Paige Passano ...
    What is women’s empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women’s health? These are questions that the University of California Global Health Institute’s (UCGHI) Center of Expertise (COE) on Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment aimed to answer with this book. Since 2009 the COE has brought together a multidisciplinary network of experts from across the University of California (UC) ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Gendering Bodies

    by Sara L. Crawley, Lara J. Foley, Constance L. Shehan ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    Gendering Bodies explains how the social world shapes our physical bodies and how our bodies shape the social world. In this remarkable investigation into contemporary ideas of gender, sociologists Crawley, Foley, and Shehan argue that bodies are constantly being gendered, or encouraged to participate in (heterosexual) gender conformity. This engendering influences nutrition practices, work and ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Fair Play in Sport

    A Moral Norm System

    Edited by Sigmund Loland ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    Fair Play in Sport presents a critical re-working of the classic ideal of fair play and explores its practical consequences for competitive sport. By linking general moral principles and practical cases, the book develops a contemporary theory of fair play.The book examines many of the key issues in the ethics of sport, including:* fairness and justice in sport* moral and immoral interpretation of ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • Gender, Culture, and Physicality

    Paradoxes and Taboos

    by Helen M. Sterk, Annelies Knoppers ...
    Although a plethora of scholarship analyzes gender dynamics, this book seeks to explore the paradoxes and taboos associated with gendered meanings given to human bodies in action, or "physicality." Physicality provides a particularly clear playing space for developing concepts of gender identity, structures, and cultural meanings. When people think about gender differences, they often refer to ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Ethics in the First Person

    A Guide to Teaching and Learning Practical Ethics

    by Deni Elliott ...
    Ethics in the First Person is the first comprehensive guide to teaching and learning practical ethics to be published in more than 25 years. This book provides the historical context for the study of practical ethics in the Twenty-First Century, but focuses on the teaching and learning of practical ethics as a first-person, present-tense activity. Practical ethics instruction can be expected to ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Trans Generation

    How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution

    by Travers ...
    Winner, 2019 PROSE Award for Anthropology, Criminology and Sociology, presented by the Association of American PublishersA groundbreaking look at the lives of transgender children and their familiesSome “boys” will only wear dresses; some “girls” refuse to wear dresses; in both cases, as Travers shows in this fascinating account of the lives of transgender kids, these are often more than just ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • On Being Included

    Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

    by Sara Ahmed ...
    What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory

    Edited by Jayne Caudwell ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    The first book focusing exclusively on this subject, Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory captures the newest and best writing on an emerging focus of study that brings in perspectives from a number of disciplines including sports studies, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies, and queer studies. An accessible introduction to this dynamic field, this is an explorative ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Critical Readings in Bodybuilding

    Edited by Adam Locks, Niall Richardson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship available on contemporary bodybuilding. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding is the first collection to ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD