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“brian pronger”

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  • The Arena of Masculinity

    Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of Sex

    by Brian Pronger ...
    Sports are perhaps the most visible expression of the ideals of masculinity in our society, and figure as a training ground on which young boys are taught what it means to be a man. Given the involvement of sports with masculinity, the homosexual athlete becomes a paradox, and the recent explosive growth of gay sporting leagues, a puzzle.Pronger explores the paradoxical position of the gay athlete ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer

    by Chuck Culpepper ...
    Chuck Culpepper was a veteran sports journalist edging toward burnout . . . then he went to London and discovered the high-octane, fanatical (and bloody confusing!) world of English soccer.After covering the American sports scene for fifteen years, Chuck Culpepper suffered from a profound case of Common Sportswriter Malaise. He was fed up with self-righteous proclamations, steroid scandals, and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Death to the BCS: Totally Revised and Updated

    The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series

    by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter, Jeff Passan ...
    With all-new reporting, a completely revised and updated second edition of the bestseller that takes down the Great Satan of college sports: the Bowl Championship Series (BCS).Every college sport picks its champion by a postseason tournament, except for one: Divsiion I-A football. Instead of a tournament, fans are subjected to the Bowl Championship Series, an arcane mix of polling and mathematical ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Any Other Way

    Histories of Queer Toronto

    Edited by Stephanie Chambers, Jane Farrow, Maureen FitzGerald, Ed Jackson, John Lorinc, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, Rahim Thawer ...
    Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how these individuals and community networks have transformed Toronto from a place of churches and conservative mores into a city that has consistently led the way in queer activism, not just in Canada but ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Fair Play

    How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports

    by Cyd Zeigler ...
    Zeigler tells the story of how sports has been radically transformed for LGBT athletes in the past four years." Fair Play presents LGBT history and shows how far the movement has come. It's also an important scrapbook of past and present-day gay athletes who have bravely tested America's social climate and come out, even when their careers were at risk." — Bay Area ReporterWhen Cyd Zeigler started ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples

    by Jerry Bigner, Joseph L. Wetchler ...
    Use new knowledge of the LGBT culture to ably counsel same-sex couples!Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples provides psychologists, therapists, social workers, and counselors with an overview of the array of treatment issues they may face when working with couples from the LGBT community. This book highlights the experiences of therapists who have encountered concerns particular to LGBT ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • My Desire for History

    Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History

    by Allan Bérubé ...
    This anthology pays tribute to Allan Bérubé (1946–2007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and gay history in the United States. Best known for his Lambda Literary Award–winning book Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II (1990), Bérubé also wrote extensively on the history of sexual politics in San Francisco and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites

    by Susan Ferentinos ...
    Series series Interpreting History
    LGBT individuals and families are increasingly visible in popular culture and local communities; their struggles for equality appear regularly in news media. If history museums and historic sites are to be inclusive and relevant, they must begin incorporating this community into their interpretation. Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites is straightforward, accessible guidebook ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Inclusive Masculinities in Contemporary Football

    Men in the Beautiful Game

    by Rory Magrath ...
    Series series Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities
    Football has traditionally been an institution hostile toward sexual minorities. Boys and men in the sport have deployed high levels of homophobia for multiple reasons. However, the ground-breaking research within this book shows that intolerant attitudes toward gay men are increasingly being challenged. Based on unprecedented access to Premier League academies, Inclusive Masculinities in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Game's Not Over

    In Defense of Football

    by Gregg Easterbrook ...
    Is there anything more universally American than NFL football?Love of the NFL runs deep and broad. It is a primetime TV event on multiple national networks, subsidized by public funds and popular from Mount Rainier to Miami Beach. The 2015 Super Bowl, a thriller between the Patriots and Seahawks, was the most-watched program in the history of television, with more than a third of the country ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe

    States, media and markets 1950-2010

    Edited by Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young, Richard Holt ...
    Series series CRESC
    In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globalization. In this fascinating, inter-disciplinary study, leading international scholars explore the making of modern sport in Europe, illuminating sport and its cultural and economic impacts in the context of the supra-state formations and global markets ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Out in Sport

    The experiences of openly gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport

    by Eric Anderson, Rory Magrath, Rachael Bullingham ...
    Research has shown that since the turn of the millennia, matters have rapidly improved for gays and lesbians in sport. Where gay and lesbian athletes were merely tolerated a decade ago, today they are celebrated.This book represents the most comprehensive examination of the experiences of gays and lesbians in sport ever produced. Drawing on interviews with openly gay and lesbian athletes in the US ... Read more

    $57.99 USD