Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby: Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence

This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization and the mid-ranges of agency between dichotomies of voluntarism and determinism.

Author: Maddie Breeze
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/29/2015
Pages: 195
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781137504838

About the Author

Maddie Breeze is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is interested in gender sociology, feminist and post-structuralist theory, and qualitative research methods. She is currently investigating the emotional and relational aspects of young people's political engagement in post-referendum Scotland.