cknowledgements Viii
Contributors Ix
Preface Xv
Part I Theoretical, Methodological, and Historical Issues = 1
Chapter 1 S/he Plays Sport? Theorizing The Sport/gender Process = 4
Melissa Parker and Philip White
Chapter 2 Sport, Gender, and Research Method = 32
Michael Atkinson
Chapter 3 Cultural Struggle and Resistance: Gender, History, and Canadian Sport = 56
M. Ann Hall
Chapter 4 The Public Importance of Men and The Importance of Public Men: Sport and Masculinities in Nineteenth Century Canada = 75
Kevin B. Wamsley
Part Ii Stratification and Power = 93
Chapter 5 Social Class and Gender: Intersections in Sport and Physical Activity = 95
Peter Donnelly and Jean Harvey
Chapter 6 Levelling The Playing Field: Promoting The Health of Poor Women Through a Community Development Approach to Recreation = 120
Wendy Frisby, Colleen Reid, and Pamela Ponic
Chapter 7 Doing Race, Doing Gender: First Nations, 'sport, and Gender Relations = 137
Victoria Paraschak
Chapter 8 Acting Your Age? Gender, Aging, and Physical Activity = 155
Patricia Vertinsky and Sandra O'brien Cousins
Chapter 9 Sexualities, Genders, and Bodies in Sport: Changing Practices of Inequity = 178
Kevin G. Davison and Blye W. Frank
Chapter 10 Gender Relations in Canadian Amateur Sport Organizations: An Organizational Culture Perspective = 194
Sally Shaw and Larena Hoeber
Chapter 11 Oppression Is The Message: Media, Sport, Spectacle, and Gender = 212
Brian Wilson
Part Iii Problems and Controversies = 235
Chapter 12 Eating Disorders, Physical Activity, and Sport: Biological, Psychological, and Sociological Factors = 237
Caroline Davis
Chapter 13 Gender, Sport, and The Injury Process = 259
Philip White and Kevin Young
Chapter 14 Who's Fair Game? Sport, Sexual Harassment, and Abuse = 279
Peter Donnelly
Chapter 15 Hazing As a Form of Sport and Gender Socialization = 302
Jamie Bryshun and Kevin Young
Afterword = 328
Index = 331
Contributors Ix
Preface Xv
Part I Theoretical, Methodological, and Historical Issues = 1
Chapter 1 S/he Plays Sport? Theorizing The Sport/gender Process = 4
Melissa Parker and Philip White
Chapter 2 Sport, Gender, and Research Method = 32
Michael Atkinson
Chapter 3 Cultural Struggle and Resistance: Gender, History, and Canadian Sport = 56
M. Ann Hall
Chapter 4 The Public Importance of Men and The Importance of Public Men: Sport and Masculinities in Nineteenth Century Canada = 75
Kevin B. Wamsley
Part Ii Stratification and Power = 93
Chapter 5 Social Class and Gender: Intersections in Sport and Physical Activity = 95
Peter Donnelly and Jean Harvey
Chapter 6 Levelling The Playing Field: Promoting The Health of Poor Women Through a Community Development Approach to Recreation = 120
Wendy Frisby, Colleen Reid, and Pamela Ponic
Chapter 7 Doing Race, Doing Gender: First Nations, 'sport, and Gender Relations = 137
Victoria Paraschak
Chapter 8 Acting Your Age? Gender, Aging, and Physical Activity = 155
Patricia Vertinsky and Sandra O'brien Cousins
Chapter 9 Sexualities, Genders, and Bodies in Sport: Changing Practices of Inequity = 178
Kevin G. Davison and Blye W. Frank
Chapter 10 Gender Relations in Canadian Amateur Sport Organizations: An Organizational Culture Perspective = 194
Sally Shaw and Larena Hoeber
Chapter 11 Oppression Is The Message: Media, Sport, Spectacle, and Gender = 212
Brian Wilson
Part Iii Problems and Controversies = 235
Chapter 12 Eating Disorders, Physical Activity, and Sport: Biological, Psychological, and Sociological Factors = 237
Caroline Davis
Chapter 13 Gender, Sport, and The Injury Process = 259
Philip White and Kevin Young
Chapter 14 Who's Fair Game? Sport, Sexual Harassment, and Abuse = 279
Peter Donnelly
Chapter 15 Hazing As a Form of Sport and Gender Socialization = 302
Jamie Bryshun and Kevin Young
Afterword = 328
Index = 331