Snowboarding bodies in theory and practice
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Snowboarding bodies in theory and practice
（Global culture and sport / series editors Stephen Wagg and David Andrews）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- : hardback
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introducing a Sociology of Snowboarding Bodies Remembering the Snowboarding Body Producing and Consuming the Snowboarding Body Representing the Boarding Body: Discourse, Power and the Snowboarding Media Cultural Boarding Bodies: Status, Style and Symbolic Capital Female Boarding Bodies: Betties, Babes and Bad-Asses Male Boarding Bodies: Pleasure, Pain and Performance Transnational Boarding Bodies: Travel, Tourism and Lifestyle Sport Migration Sensual Snowboarding Bodies in Affective Spaces Body Politics, Social Change and the Future of Physical Cultural Studies Bibliography Notes Index
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