Higher Goals

Higher GoalsOffers a fascinating ethnography of physicality and gender relations in women's team contact sports. Winner of the 2001 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award The most extensive treatment to date of women's experiences in team sports, Higher Goals provides an ethnographic account of the "Blades," a Canadian team that plays at the highest levels of women's hockey. With a vivid depiction of life on the Blades, the book follows the

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each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and an award-winning graduate student essay

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