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A Performative Feel for the Game: How Meaningful Sports Shape Gender, Bodies, and Social Life

A Performative Feel for the Game: How Meaningful Sports Shape Gender, Bodies, and Social Life

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Publisher Springer, Berlin
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Pages 209
Version hardback
Language English
ISBN 9783030351281
Categories Sociology
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Applying a cultural sociology of performance, this book interrogates how the meaning of sport intersects with gender. Trygve B. Broch points out uncertainties in the causal arguments made by key figures in the cultural studies tradition, instead advancing a meaning-centered study of sports as involving both a social and an athletic performance. Sports not only reflect or reverse social realities, but capture and keep our attention when we use and experience them as a means to reflect on social life, injustice, and hierarchy. More specifically, blending approaches from media studies with ethnography, Broch explores the women-dominated sport of handball in Norway, a country that considers gender equality a basis of democracy. As such, the analyses here show how broadly available meanings about sameness and equality are mediated and experienced through a performative feel for the game.

A Performative Feel for the Game: How Meaningful Sports Shape Gender, Bodies, and Social Life

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Sport, Meaning and GenderThe challenge of the critical theorist: gender as perspectiveMeaning making and sport: play and game theoryWhat is Handball? A one-stop shopA cultural sociology of sport: using culture as perspectiveMethodologyOutline of the book
Part IChapter 2: Media, sport enchantment and genderThis one's for the record books: Game dynamics and story tellingEntering enchantment: Sensing the myth-making vortexTranscending time and object: Handball and Viking warriorsChapter 3: Enchanted fusion: bringing together game play and genderThe generative grammar: cognitive simplifications shaping sportThe Bang: codes generating vocabularies and iconic consciousnessThe first sex of Norwegian handball: the Iconic Women WarriorThe second sex of Norwegian handball: playing catchup?Part IIChapter 4: Socialization, sport felicity and genderThrowing like a handball girl part I: performances shaping materialityThrowing like a handball girl part II: sensations of the meaningful universeBeing snill on the handball court: when the match gets underwayThe gendered significance of the smileChapter 5: Throwing like a handballboy: enchanted flows of powerRe-immersion in youth: teens and parents in dreaming disarrayAgency and choreography: carving out stages for serious playThe size of a handballboy: corporal materiality and meaningMoral guardian of his rational actors: individual flows in cultureChapter 6: By way of conclusion
A cultural sociology of sport

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