This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization and the mid-ranges of agency between dichotomies of voluntarism and determinism.

Autorentext

Maddie Breeze is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is interested in gender sociology, feminist and post-structuralist theory, and qualitative research methods. She is currently investigating the emotional and relational aspects of young people's political engagement in post-referendum Scotland.

Inhalt

1. A sport for women who don't like sport?
   
   2. Beginnings: How weird it was back in the day
   3. Becomings: More structured and more of a sport
   4. Just a big sexy joke?
   5. Making it up
   6. Non-/seriousness: Playing the game and changing the rules