Why do women follow sports? What can female fandom tell us about gender relations in sport? This book explores these questions by bringing together the varied strands of research being conducted internationally across the social sciences and humanities on this emerging and topical field.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2012-08-31
Language: English
Number of Pages: 216
Edition: 1
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..