Why Would Anyone Do That? : : Lifestyle Sport in the Twenty-First Century / / Stephen C. Poulson.
Triathlons, such as the famously arduous Ironman Triathlon, and "extreme" mountain biking-hair-raising events held over exceedingly dangerous terrain-are prime examples of the new "lifestyle sports" that have grown in recent years from oddball pursuits, practiced by a handful of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Sport and Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) :; 9 photographs, 2 figures, 2 ta |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Would Anyone Ride a Mountain Bike in the Middle of the Night?
- 1. Social Life and Sport
- 2. Looking for Adventure, Looking for Authenticity
- 3. Disciplining Bodies in Lifestyle Sport
- 4. Types of Lifestyle Athletes and Team Touch of Grey
- 5. Resistance to Discipline in a Cycling Community
- 6. Why So White? Race and Social Class in Lifestyle Sport
- 7. Where Are the Women? Differing Levels of Participation in Lifestyle and Adventure Sport
- 8. Conclusion
- Appendix: My Experience with Lifestyle Sport and Location of the Study
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author