Sport, Gender and Power by Adele Pavlidis, Simone Fullagar - 9780367600075

Taylor & Francis

As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts \u2019derby grrrls\u2019 are pushing the boundaries of gender as they negotiate the nexus of pleasure, pain and power relations. Offering a socio-cultural analysis of the rise and reinvention of roller derby as both a new, globalized women\u2019s sport and an everyday creative leisure space, this book explores the man > As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts \u2019derby grrrls\u2019 are pushing the boundaries of gender as they negotiate the nexus of pleasure, pain and power relations. Offering a socio-cultural analysis of the rise and reinvention of roller derby as both a new, globalized women\u2019s sport and an everyday creative leisure space, this book explores the manner in which roller derby has emerged as a gendered space for self-transformation, belonging and embodied contest, in which women are invited to experience their emotions differently, embrace pain and overcome limits. Sport, Gender and Power: The Rise of Roller .