A Performative Feel for the Game: How Meaningful Sports Shape Gender, Bodies, and Social Life 1st ed. 2020 Edition Trygve B. Broch

A Performative Feel for the Game: How Meaningful Sports Shape Gender, Bodies, and Social Life – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030351281,9783030351298,3030351289,3030351297

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030351289
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030351281
• Author(s): Trygve B. Broch

Applying a cultural sociology of performance, this book interrogates how the meaning of sport intersects with gender. Trygve B. Broch points out uncertainties in the causal arguments made by key figures in the cultural studies tradition, instead advancing a meaning-centered study of sports as involving both a social and an athletic performance. Sports not only reflect or reverse social realities, but capture and keep our attention when we use and experience them as a means to reflect on social life, injustice, and hierarchy. More specifically, blending approaches from media studies with ethnography, Broch explores the women-dominated sport of handball in Norway, a country that considers gender equality a basis of democracy. As such, the analyses here show how broadly available meanings about sameness and equality are mediated and experienced through a performative feel for the game.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Sport, Meaning and Gender
Part I. Media, Sport Enchantment and Gender
2. Media and Sport Enchantment: Narrative, Myth, and Games of Modernity
3. Enchanted Fusion: Bringing Together Game Play and Gender
Part II. Socialization, Sport Felicity and Gender
4. Throwing Like a Handballgirl: Performance and Materiality
5. Throwing Like a Handballboy: Enchanted Flows of Power
6. By Way of Conclusion: A Cultural Sociology of Sports

People also search:

a performance filled with clumsiness

a performs b for c

a performance goal is related to

a performer

a play that makes fun of something is called

an enjoyable performance