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Contents Preface Acknowledgements Alan Tomlinson The Reader and Sport Studies: A General Introduction Section One Conceptualizing and theorizing sport 1 Johan Huizinga The Play-Element in Contemporary Civilization 2 Jean-Marie Brohm Theses Towards a Political Sociology of Sport 3 Bero Rigauer Top-Level Sports and ?Achievement? 4 Allen Guttmann Rules of the Game 5 Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning The Quest for Excitement in Leisure 6 Richard Gruneau Problems of Agency and Freedom in Play, Games, and Sport 7 John Hargreaves The Autonomy of Sport 8 Jennifer Hargreaves Theories of Sports: The neglect of gender Section Two Histories 9 Robert W Malcolmson Social Change 10 Richard Holt Survival and Adaptation 11 J. A. Mangan Athleticism 12 Gillian Avery The Best Type of Girl 13 Peter Bailey Rational Recreation and the New Athleticism 14 Hugh Cunningham Class and Leisure in Mid-Victorian England 15 Tony Mason Amateurs and Professionals 16 Andrew Davies Men: Poverty, unemployment and the family Section Three Politics 17 C. L. R. James The Proof of the Pudding 18 Richard D. Mandell Sportsmanship and Nazi Olympism 19 John Hoberman Sportive Nationalism 20 John Sugden and Alan Bairner ?Ma, There?s a Helicopter on the Pitch!? Sport, Leisure, and the State in Northern Ireland 21 John Wilson Leisure and Nationalism 22 Maurice Roche Sport and Community: Rhetoric and Reality in the Development of British Sport Policy 23 Margaret Talbot The Politics of Sport and Physical Education 24 Barrie Houlihan The Politics of Sports Policy in Britain: The Example of Drug Abuse Section Four Media 25 Tony Mason The Traditional Sporting Press in Britain 26 John Hargreaves Constructing Media Sport 27 Steven Barnett Potting the Gold ? The Sponsorship Game 28 Garry Whannel Narrative: The Case of Coe and Ovett 29 Neil Blain, Raymond Boyle and Hugh O?Donnell Sport, Delivery Systems and National Culture 30 Richard Holt and Tony Mason Sensationalism and the Popular Press 31 Jennifer Smith Maguire Body Lessons: Fitness Publishing and the Cultural Production of the Fitness Consumer 32 Toby Miller, Geoffrey Lawrence, Jim McKay, and David Rowe Global Sport Media Section Five Class, Community and Cultural Reproduction 33 Thorstein Veblen Modern Survivals of Prowess 34 David C. Itzkowitz Myth and Ideal 35 John Hargreaves Class Divisions 36 Pierre Bourdieu Sport and Social Class 37 Ronald Frankenberg Football and Politics in a North Wales Community (Pentrediwaith) 38 Brian Jackson On the Bowling Green 39 Paul Corrigan What Do Kids Get Out of Football? 40 Lo¿c J. D. Wacquant Pugs at Work: Bodily Capital and Bodily Labour Among Professional Boxers Section Six Race and Ethnic Identities 41 C. L. R. James The Light and the Dark 42 Frank Manning Black Clubs in Bermuda 43 Ernest Cashmore Balck Sportsmen 44 Jonathan Long, Ben Carrington and Karl Spracklen 'Asians Cannot Wear Turbans in the Scrum': Explorations of Racist Discourse Within Professional Rugby League 45 Scott Fleming Sport and South Asian Youth: The Perils of 'False Universalism' and Stereotyping 46 Ben Carrington Sport, Masculinity and Black Cultural Resistance 47 Scott Fleming and Alan Tomlinson Racism and Xenophobia in English Football 48 Pnina Werbner Fun Spaces: On Identity and Social Empowerment among British Pakistanis Section Seven Gender and Sexualities 49 Eric Dunning Sport, Gender and Civilization 50 Audrey Middleton Marking Boundaries: Men?s Space and Women?s Space in a Yorkshire Village 51 Shirley Prendergast Stoolball?The Pursuit of Vertigo? 52 Sheila Scraton 'Boys Muscle in Where Angels Fear to Tread' ? Girls' Sub-Cultures and Physical Activities 53 M Ann Hall Feminist Activism in Sport: A Comparative Study of Women's Sport Advocacy Organizations 54 Rosemary Deem Women and Sport 55 Jayne Caudwell Sex and Politics: Sites of Resistance in Women's Football 56 Jennifer Hargreaves Men and Women and the Gay Games Section Eight Subcultures 57 Peter Donnelly Towards a Definition of Sport Subcultures 58 John Sugden The Exploitation of Disadvantage: The Occupational Sub-Culture of the Boxer 59 Peter Marsh, Elisabeth Rosser and Rom Harr¿ Life on the Terraces 60 Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy and John Williams Ordered Segmentation and Hooligan Violence 61 Belinda Wheaton and Alan Tomlinson The Changing Gender Order in Sport? The Case of Windsurfing Subcultures 62 Gill Clarke Outlaws in Sport and Education? Exploring the Sporting and Education Experiences of Lesbian Physical Education Teachers 63 Becky Beal Disqualifying the Official: An Exploration of Social Resistance Through the Subculture of Skateboarding 64 Alan M. Klein Pumping Irony: Crisis and Contradiction in Bodybuilding Section Nine Consumption and Spectacle 65 Pierre Bourdieu The Universes of Stylistic Possibles 66 Guy Debord The Commodity as Spectacle 67 Jean Baudrillard The Drama of Leisure or the Impossibility of Wasting One's Time 68 Herbert I. Schiller The Transnationalization of Corporate Expression 69 Christopher Lasch The Degradation of Sport 70 Leo Lowenthal The Triumph of Mass Idols 71 Paul Hoch Owning and Selling the Spectacle 72 Richard Gruneau and David Whitson Hockey and the New Politics Of Accumulation Alan Tomlinson Afterword Index
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Sports -- Sociological aspects -- Textbooks.