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This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Sports continue to retain expectations for presentations of specific forms of masculinity. The body is central to these presentations. These everyday bodily performances are rehearsed and performed either successfully or unsuccessfully - and the consequences of these actions play a significant part in the ability of the individual to continue to take part. Through participant observations, sporting life-history interviews (with over forty men) and research with children, this book examines the ways in which 'appropriate' sporting masculinities are learned and enacted to varying degrees of success. Wellard highlights the social processes which impact upon individual constructions and formulations of masculine identity and reviews these in relation to broader debates on gender, embodiment and sporting participation. This book contributes not only to the academic fields of sport and gender, but also to the efforts to confront continued forms of 'accepted' gender discrimination.

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The Heroes Have Gone shows off Jim W. Corder’s consummate skills as a memoirist, essayist, and cultural critic. The subjects are wide-ranging: West Texas, World War II, Las Vegas, TCU football—and baseball. While scandals of steroids, Congressional hearings, perjury charges, illegal betting, wildly-inflated contracts (and egos) and generally naughty behavior tarnish the image of today’s athletes, Corder remembers the sports heroes of his own Depression-era childhood: he writes of Gehrig, of Gheringer—and of his own older brother, who played on the sandlots of dustbowl West Texas. Though nostalgic, Corder is never naive: the heroic image of the American warrior-athlete—much like the wild-west cowboy—has forever been a dream. And when we’ve believed in it, tried to live own lives by its measure, we have inevitably failed: the dream became our collective nightmare. Witty, often humorous, always poignant, Corder drives this point home: the heroes have gone. Indeed, they never were. ... Read more

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One of the best books I've read in a long time
This book is now among my favorites. I heartily recommend it to anyone who is old enough to appreciate looking backward and trying to fit together the pieces of one's life. On one level, it is just an amazingly interesting book: it covers a wide range of topics and always pulls me in to the author's own absorption in whatever he turns to next.On deeper levels, though, I think maybe it's a masterpiece. One doesn't tend to realize how much philosophy and intellectual rigor is there, hiding under the surface of these essays, until the entire work begins to take shape in the mind and heart of the reader. It's continually touching and often very moving to follow this writer's journey-- looking back over his life and trying to make sense of the little moments and the emotions. I think that's what we all come to, at some point in our lives, if we live long enough and are honest with ourselves.I especially admire the way that he uses objects--things--as a way into his memories and emotions. This develops into a creative way of opening his memories, but it also makes his stories memorable to me, as well, because I can picture that old baseball glove or his newspaper clippings. I have similar objects that hold mysterious keys to my childhood, too. But this writer is relentless in confronting not only his memories but his mistaken memories, and in treating both as revelatory, he attempts to understand the essence of what memory IS, of what a place IS to the heart, of how we build our identities over time out of what happened and what didn't happen.The cumulative effect makes this book one of the most enlightening, as well as fascinating, reads that I could ever want. I noticed that Amazon.com asked, "Are you over 13?" before it allowed me to write this review, and I think that's probably an especially good idea in regard to this book, because I suspect that readers younger than 40 or 50 may simply "not get" its profundity. Even so, I think it ought to be a fascinating experience for any reader interested in narratives and the art of writing a memoir.

A review (excerpted) from Aethlon, by Richard C. Crepeau
Prof. Richard C. Crepeau of the University of Central Florida reviewed Jim's book, "The Heroes Have Gone," in Aethlon: A Journal of Sport Literature (May 2008)[...]. The following is excerpted from Crepeau's review:

Those who have heard the voice of Jim Corder will hear it again in these five essays and one poem contained in this delightful, thoughtful and, at times, profound little collection. The voice and accent were from West Texas, as was the man. West Texas also provided the bedrock of his view of the world. The pen and ink drawings illustrating these essays are Jim Corder's doing....
The opening essay "The Glove" starts with Corder's recollection of his first baseball glove and the circumstances of its Christmas appearance in the later years of the Great Depression. Over the course of some eighty pages, Corder walks through his childhood, commenting on most everything imaginable out of his West Texas life: his parents, his brother, his hometown of Jayton, population 638, and, of course, his first glove, later gloves, his brother's glove and other gloves he came know and see.
That is but the surface. While commenting on the books he read as a child and the world revealed by the local newspaper, Corder seeks the sources of his values, his perceptions and misperceptions of the world in which he was living and growing into an adult. He writes of baseball and language and his heroes and what they may have taught him about life. He reflects on his wife and their relationship, his two daughters with whom he did not play catch and his son with whom he did. He talks of softball and his preference for slow pitch over fast pitch, his views on basketball and football and his feelings about the 1994 baseball strike.
In the end, all this is much more than the sum of its parts. It is a marvelous meandering through memories, some real, some distorted and some without any perceived grounding in reality. It is an attempt to find the stuff of one's identity that is about as puzzling a task as a human can take up. Or so it seems.
In "Making Las Vegas," Corder talks of his many trips to that city with his wife. He ponders what his love of Las Vegas may say about himself and about the human attachment to place. In Vegas he has his rituals, his favorite places and even his favorite slot machines. He avoids the poker tables as he finds the people at them too serious. He finds the poker machines much more congenial.
He asks: "What makes a place a place? When does a place become a place? How do you know when you get there?" (p.159) By the time you digest all the descriptions of Vegas and think about all the sociology, geography, theology and Eastern philosophy that Corder cites, you begin to understand the significance of these questions, not to mention the significance of the title of this essay.
In "World War II on Cleckler Street," Corder recalls the war as he saw it as a child and contrasts it with the war he came to understand as an adult. He spent most of the war years on Cleckler Street in Fort Worth at a time when comic books occupied a central place in his life. He saw the war through the actions of the superheroes and through the movies he watched. It was a war of simple truths and obvious villains, fought with courage and precision by decent American boys, and it was without consequences for the civilian populations.
When Corder served in the military and spent several years in Germany in the post-war years, he saw the consequences of the war for the ordinary people who were caught in its path. He learned that the war he had seen in the comics and in Time, Life and Look had no relationship to reality, unless it was an inverse one. He came to regret that he was ever attracted to war stories or to war. As an antidote, Corder tells us, he repeatedly turned to accounts of the Battle of Verdun, the horror chamber of the First World War.
Corder revisits the meaning of manhood that he learned as a boy and finds that he never measured up. He never learned to face pain stoically, to "prove himself" in athletic competition or to accept the notion that the best place to prove yourself as a man is in war. He tells us that these failures always embarrassed him but that he had a determination to leave competition, war and these distorted definitions of manhood behind. And he tells us he's not sure he can.
In "The Heroes Have Gone from the Grocery Store," Jim Corder seeks to solve one of the great mysteries of his life. Why is it that he clearly remembers that Dizzy Dean was on a Wheaties Box, describing the details of his greatest day in sports, namely the final game of the 1934 World Series? Why does he remember cutting that narrative off the box and placing it in his scrapbook? Why does he remember it so clearly? In point of fact, Dizzy Dean was never on a Wheaties Box and Wheaties never had a feature on their boxes titled, "My Greatest Day in Sports." The quest to solve this mystery is a marvelous exploration of memory and its deceptions....

Reads like rants, which were not well thought out
This is a boring book, that reads less like essays with insight from the author and more like rants.He goes into different subjects, without ever letting the reader know, why he chose to focus on that subject. this book was published for him, after his death, and honestly thats the way it reads, like a bunch of rants which were not revised and i find it hard to believe that anyone would enjoy reading this book.

A Great Book to Read
This is a great book to read. The author illustrates the essence of creative nonfiction and provides factual information in an interesting way. I loved how the author was able to grab the reader's attention with vivid descriptions and details. This allowed the reader to follow the author's journey in life, his passion for baseball, and the journey of the glove. It was interesting to see how the author was able to use a simple object and turn it into several stories that helped represent his life and define who he was. ... Read more

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This first book to examine the two popular realms of sports and autobiography looks at recurring patterns found in athletes' accounts of their lives and sporting experiences, examining language, metaphor, and other rhetorical strategies to analyze sports from the inside out. Drawing on the life stories of well-known athletes, Pipkin follows players from the echoing green of eternal youth to the sometimes cultlike and isolated status of fame, interpreting recurring patterns both in the living of their lives and in the telling of them. He sheds light on athletes' common obsession with youth and body image; explores their descriptions of being in a zone; and considers the time that all athletes dread, when their bodies begin to betray them . . . and the cheering stops. ... Read more

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Insightful and entertaining
At first the thought of an academic look at sports autobiographies seemed like a bit of a stretch.It isn't.Pipkin covers it all, the good, the bad, the mundane and even deals with the issue of ghost writing.It is well-organized and concise and is a good read and his insightful observations are spot-on. ... Read more

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Curt Flood, former star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, is a hero to many for selflessly sacrificing his career to challenge baseball s reserve system. Sportswriters and fans have helped to paint a picture of Flood as a larger-than-life figure, a portrait that, unhappily, cannot stand closer inspection. This book reveals the real Flood more man than myth. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Weiss explains how Flood s battle against the reserve system cannot be understood in isolation from the personal experiences that precipitated it, such as his youth in a dysfunctional home, his unwavering commitment to the Cardinals, and his alcoholism. It shows that Flood was neither a hero nor a martyr but a victim of unique circumstances and his own life. ... Read more

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Error Corrected
As the author of The Curt Flood Story: The Man Behind the Myth, I want to correct a key date on page 110. It could not be more significant. It was central to my argument that Flood sued baseball because he became bitter and angry, even unreasoning, after he misplayed Jim Northrup's line drive in the 1968 World Series. A central piece of evidence was his failure to send his ex-wife her semi-monthly check on October 18, 1968, just a week after the Series ended.Unfortunately, I did not see until yesterday, August 26, 2008, that I placed the month at November, more than a month after the Series, which undermined the nexus and my argument.I am sorry on several counts, for not seeing the mistake before publication, for not correcting it sooner, and for partially vitiating my thesis.

A few errors
Interesting premise, and although the writing is a bit uninspired, a reasonable read.I am still not quite sure what problem the Mr. Weiss was trying to solve (but, indeed, the book is provocative, as the author promises).I also was struck by the apparent refusal of any of Curt Flood's teammates to speak with the Mr. Weiss about Flood's career.I think there also could have been a bit more discussion of Jackie Robinson's testimony at the trial and what prompted it.

I did spot a few minor errors which I would suggest revisiting should there be a second edition.

page 103, top paragraph, for Keane (who was dead by 1967) should be Schoendinst.

page 106there is a repeat of the phraase "-and Mickey Lolich"...which I think is unintentional

page 114 The museum housing the old masters in Amsterdam is the "Rijksmuseum", not the "Reichsmuseum"(probably the last thing the Dutch would want the place called"

page 140Not really an error, but when the Phils were trying to lure Flood to come in 1970, the artificial turf of the Vet was still more than year away

page 175In January of 1970, the opposing teams in the Superbowl were Kansas City and Minnesota, not Green Bay and Minnesota

My only other observation is that whatever the myth was, Flood was a fabulous player and in 1967, when the Cards came to New England for the Series, many of thought that with the excepton of Frank Robinson (who had come to the Orioles the previous year) the American Leagues did not have players the likes of Flood, Bob Gibson and Lous Brock.

Review of the Curt Flood Story
This book is a good read and not only for a baseball fans. It is primarily about a player's reasons for sacrificing his career, and in that sense it is extremely provocative. It directly attacks the eulogistic and long-standing view that Curt Flood was a hero who sacrificed his career on behalf of a noble cause--challenging baseball's reserve system in the courts. In that sense it is a psychodrama.

Review of The Curt Flood Story: The Man behind the Myth
According to the author, this book is the story of the life of a sensitive, brooding St. Louis Cardinals star center fielder who became unhinged after misplaying a costly line drive in the 1968 World Series, feuded with his boss, Gussie Busch, and the Cardinals front office, and then found himself traded.Bound by his contract that obligated him to go where the Cardinals sent him, or retire, he chose a third option--to challenge baseball's reserve clause which he believed, after conferring with his lawyer, was unconstitutional.The writer argues, successfully in this reader's judgment, that Flood's unusual decision, sacrificing his career, was another in a series of bad decisions that stemmed from his misplay in 1968.In this smoothly written book, Professor Weiss also argues very cogently that although Flood, because of his challenge to the reserve clause, is viewed by many people as the father of free agency, actually he was at best the grandfather, and perhaps only the Godfather, of free agency.
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Nice radio AND newspaper nostalgia
Jerry Eskenazi, sports writer for the New York Times, among other papers, relates what it was like growing up in New York in the pre-war years. His mother was divorced, and worked full-time, making young Jerry somewhat of an outcast, although he grew up under the watchful eye of his immigrant grandmother. Radio became his solace in the hours at home alone after school. Like all kids in Brooklyn, he discovered and enjoyed baseball, especially when he realized that Ted Williams was also the child of divorced parents.

With considerable glee, Eskenazi writes of his introduction to the [then] rough-and-tumble world of newspapering, first at the New York Mirror, then at the Times. Along the way to writing this book, he compares radio memories with Tom Brokaw and Colin Powell.

Although the book is nominally radio nostalgia, it paints an excellent picture of the way both radio and newspapers shaped the American experience in the pre-TV era.

An interesting companion book to this would be Stud's Terkel's autobiography, Talking to Myself. Terkel, fully a generation older than Eskenazi, grew up in Chicago in similar circumstances (an immigrant family), and by the time Eskenazi discovered radio, was a bit player on many of the latter's favorite shows.

A very nice read
This is a very enjoyable book.It's a little difficult to categorize -- a memoirs that revolves around radio.If you are looking for an encyclopedia of old time radio, this is not it.This is radio as heard through the ears of one boy at one place in time. But it also presents a window onto what this device was in people's lives in a different error.There is a lot of information on the history of broadcast radio, the range of shows on air in the 40s and 50s and who listened to them, but this book is more about the role it played in the author's life (including a lot of coincidental meetings between the author later in life with many of his childhood on-air heroes).
It is particularly poignant because the writer was the only child to a single mother and found himself relying on the radio for company.

Fascinating, original, and highly recommended

The 1930s, 40s, and early 50s were the age of Radio. This is when most of America would tune in nightly for their favorite comedies, mysteries, westerns, science fiction, adventure, news, culture, and entertainment programs for children and adults. This was the ultimate era of "theatre of the mind" entertainment that took place in front of the glow of a radio dial. I Hid It Under The Sheets: Growing Up With Radio is Gerald Eskenazi's personal account and recollection of radio's broad impact on his generation and explains how and why it became such a major factor in shaping American and Americans during the years of the Great Depression, World War II, and the first decade of what was called the Cold War when the United States and the Soviet Union had the power to exterminate the human race in a nuclear holocaust. I Hid It Under The Sheets is a simply fascinating, original, and highly recommended contribution to mid-twentieth century American Cultural History library reference collections and supplemental reading lists.
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CONTENTS: American Sports, American Virtues, by MICHAEL NOVAK; The Corruption of Sports, by CHRISTOPHER LASCH; The Political and Social Dimensions of Sports, by RICHARD LIPSKY; Where Have You Gone, Frank Merriwell? by RICHARD C. CREPEAU; American Televised Sport, by JOAN CHANDLER; Rotten Apples of Gold, by NEIL D. ISAACS; Varsity Syndrome: The Unkindest Cut, by ROBERT LIPSYTE; The Amateur Myth, by ALLEN L. SACK; The Revenue Sport System, by JACK HUTSLAR; Ralph Sampson and Ralph Simpson, by WILLIAM H. WIGGINS, JR.; Women's Professional Football, by JOHN BRIDGES; Athletic Performance and Spectator Behavior, by JEFFREY H. GOLDSTEIN; North Dallas Forty and the Tradition of the American Sporting Myth, by WILEY LEE UMPHLETT; Introduction to Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction, by CHRISTIAN K. MESSENGER; Counterimages of the Student Athlete in Football Folklore, by WILLIAM H. BEEZLEY; Religion and Sports, by ROBERT J. HIGGS; The Failure of Games in Don DeLillo's End Zone, by GARY STOROFF; The Black Literary Experience in Games and Sports, by LLOYD W. BROWN; Sport Culture Studies, by GREGORY S. SOJKA; The Lower Mythology and the Higher Clichés, by GEORGE CORE; The Joy Of Sports, by DAVID L. VANDERWERKEN; Sport Studies and the Anthropology Curriculum, by BOOKS KENDALL BLANCHARD;Sport for All, from Saga of American Sport, by JOHN A. LUCAS AND RONALD A. SMITH. ... Read more

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This book focuses on the influences of culture and society on human movement, such as sport, physical activity, and fitness. The text introduces and analyses current issues of importance for those concerned with human movement and culture, whether it is in the context of teaching physical education, coordinating / marketing sport and recreational programs, coaching or servicing the general population - young and old - with any form of physical activity. Incorporating interdisciplinary, cutting edge work reflecting various research paradigms including the following theoretical perspectives: sociology, psychology, history, philosophy, anthropology, women's studies as well as cultural studies. This book will deal with different aspects of movement, sports, physical activity (including physical education) and their relationship to culture. More and more people of all ages are participating in sport and physical activity, as well as the increased awareness of the positive as well as the negative effects of such involvement need serious attention. This book will educate students at institutions of higher learning about the importance of socio-cultural as well as psychological factors inf ... Read more

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Although there is significant interest in the social role of sport in fostering civil society from both policymakers and academics, there is a lack of evidence of the specific role of sport federations in this system. This book critically presents the mechanisms and structures in a selection of sport federations within a variety of European countries that illuminate the varied relationships between not-for-profit sport federations, their members, governments and the citizens they represent. The contributors explore the contrasts and synergies between core social capital theoretical perspectives, and how these may be informed by and/or shape the realities of governance from different perspectives within the sport system.

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The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a social institution through which various ethnic and racial groups attempted to find the way to social and psychological acceptance and cultural integration. Included are chapters on Native Americans, Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Canadians, African-Americans, Italian-Americans, Hispanics, and several more, showing how their sports participation also provided these communities with some measure of social mobility, self-esteem, and a shared pride. ... Read more

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A Fan’s Handbook in association with UNITED WE STAND

INTRODUCTION

Thank goodness for Cathy Ferguson. It was the Boss’s wife, so it seems, who was responsible for the best piece of news for United fans in the 2001–02 season: Sir Alex was staying on. As recently as Boxing Day, the United manager had been insisting he would retire at the end of the season as had been long planned. "I’m absolutely going," he said then. "I won’t be making comebacks like singers do. It’s a decision me and my family have made." Just over a month later and there he was in full Sinatra mode, with the United fans teasing him in song: "It’s Cathy that wears the pants."

Perhaps it was the thought of having him under her feet round the house all day that did it. The prospect of him complaining that the washing machine had an anti-Red agenda, or standing there in the kitchen tapping his watch because the kettle was taking too long to boil, or telling the cleaning lady not to come on Friday, because he was resting her for the big one next week. Whatever, Cathy suggested he still had too much energy in him not to be working. So he decided to stay on.

In many ways, 5 February 2002, the day it was announced that Sir Alex was to remain in his office at Carrington, was the highlight of the Red season. Another three years of the greatest club manager the English game has ever known was unquestionably the best news fans could receive. Particularly since, as the manager himself suggested, his impending retirement – and the soap opera developing around his successor – had unsettled the team during the weeks now known to United historians as the black autumn, the period which cost the club a record fourth title on the bounce.

Sir Alex, remembering the shabby ends of managers such as Bill Shankly and Jock Stein, had rightly wanted to go out on his terms. Giving good notice, he thought, would allow the club the requisite time to find a replacement, and with the European final scheduled in his home city, it seemed the perfect finale was written in the script. But it didn’t quite turn out like that. For a time in the autumn of 2001, minds were focusing on the manager’s departure rather than the job in hand: players were unsure whether to sign new contracts until they knew who the new man was to be, coaching staff were worried that this might be their last year, and in the board room energies were channelled into trying to find an adequate replacement for the manager instead of a centre back. Speculation rather than concentration was the order of the day.

Hindsight is the football fan’s clearest field of vision: but last autumn Reds didn’t need any retro-spex to know that a crisis was enveloping their club. When West Ham won at Old Trafford in early December, it was the sixth defeat of the league campaign; before Christmas had arrived, United had suffered more losses than in the whole of the previous, Championship-winning season. This wasn’t the standard Red autumnal wobble. It was more like a collapse. For some commentators, Ferguson had become a lame-duck manager: just as Sven Goran Eriksson had found at Lazio, when he had tried to give notice to quit for the England job, football is an unforgiving business. Try to do things properly, to leave to a timetable and the momentum of departure takes over: Eriksson was eased out of his job less than three months into his final year. There were several pieces in the press suggesting Fergie, too, might not even make it to the last verse of his swansong.

But such speculation miscalculated the enormous will to win the man possesses. Determined that his legacy was not to be one of failure, he re-engaged with the team, put aside thoughts of leaving, once more ignited a feud with his long-running sparring partner the press. And he started to enjoy himself again. As did the team, putting aside their losing habit to embark on a New Year’s run of nine successive victories.

It was, apparently, when Gary Neville, looking at the fixture list after a wonderful away win at Sunderland, said to his manager that he only had 12 more league games left, that it hit him. He was having the time of his life, loving the challenge from Arsenal and Liverpool, turning round the fortunes of a team whose potential had barely been explored, did he really want to give all this up? After he decided to stay, the rest of the season shaped itself entirely in his image. His team refused to accept all available logic that they had blown the league. Led by the remarkable new centre forward Ruud van Nistelrooy, they climbed from the pit of autumn through a glorious spring.

And triumph was so close. Until the last fortnight of the season, there was still the mathematical possibility of a Premiership and Champions League double. That it didn’t come was, naturally, profoundly disappointing. If Reds had become blasé in all those victories these past few years, one thing is certain: we miss triumph when it isn’t there. But the truth is, there is something admirable in the way this side never gave up until the fat lady cleared her throat. ... Read more

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The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a ‘way of life’. The popularity of sport is so pronounced in some cases that we speak of certain sports as ‘national pastimes’. Baseball in the United States, soccer in Britain and cricket in the Caribbean are among the relevant examples discussed.

Rather than regarding the historical development of sport as the outcome of passive spectator reception, this work is interested in how sporting cultures have been made and developed over time through the active engagement of its enthusiasts. This is to study the history of sport not only ‘from below’, but also ‘from within’, as a means to understanding the ‘deep relationship’ between sport and people within class contexts – the middle class as well as the working class. Contestation over the making of sport along axes of race, gender and class are discussed where relevant. A range of cultural writers and theorists are examined in regard to both how their writing can help us understand the making of sport and as to how sport might be located within an overall cultural context – in different places and times.

The book will appeal to students and academics within humanities disciplines such as cultural studies, history and sociology and to those in sport studies programmes interested in the historical, cultural and social aspects of sport.

This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

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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 address the contemporary practice of bodybuilding, especially the way in which the activity has become increasingly more extreme and to consider much neglected debates of gender, eroticism, and sexuality related to the activity. Featuring the leading scholars of bodybuilding and the body as well as emerging voices, this volume will be a key addition to the fields of Sociology, Sport Studies, and Cultural Studies.

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Nature and culture are embodied in the landscapes of modern sport. This is the first book to explore the distinctive character of those landscapes. Not only does sport play a central role as a modern cultural phenomenon, the landscapes in which sport takes place have a distinctive and pervasive form which impact considerably on quality of life, in both positive and negative ways. The landscapes of modern sports are, in many ways, landscapes of modernity; they are artificial and contained. They have developed from pre-existing landscapes and may be starting to develop post-modern forms. Using text, maps, diagrams and photographs 'The Landscape of Sport' considers the 'natural' landscape antecedents of modern sport, as well as the impact of geometry and artifice on present day studies and other theatres of spectator and participant sport. John Bale analyses the effects of the processes of commodification and myth formation, before concluding with a consideration of the nature of sport futurescapes. The Landscape of Sport includes examples drawn from skating, skiing, track and field athletics, football, baseball, cricket and many other sporting forms.It will appeal to students, academics and professionals, particularly those with an interest in human geography, sports science, recreation management, architecture and cultural studies. ... Read more

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Of the global community of cricketers, the West Indians are, arguably, the most well-known and feared. This book shows how this tradition of cricketing excellence and leadership emerged, and how it contributed to the rise of West Indian nationalism and independence. The essayists argue that cricket mirrors the anti-colonial tensions and ideological and social conflicts over race and class that have shaped West Indian society. In consequence, it has helped promote the region's democratic ethos and fragmented nationalism. "Liberation Cricket" connects and embraces the diversity of West Indian social and political life, and suggests the relevance of cricket research for an understanding of the making of the modern West Indies. ... Read more