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Sport, Sexualities and Queer / Theory (Routledge Critical Studies in Sport)
by Jayne Caudwell
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Routledge (2006-05-30)
ISBN: 041536762X
EAN: 9780415367622
Dewy Decimal #: 796.08664
Paperback: 180 pages
Edition: New Ed
SKU: B246-1671
Condition: New
Comments: New & Shrinkwrapped. In stock - Immediate despatch from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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One bad chapter may spoil a whole book
Rating  (2)
Date: 2007-01-03
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Summary: a much needed book, but some `not-so-useful' chapters
Reviewer: a reader from Wales
Since sexuality and sport, not to mention gays and lesbians in sport, still is taboo-ish, it was with great interest when I first picked up this edited book by Caudwell. I quickly browsed through the content and checked out the contributors. I had to realise that the only contributor I had heard of was Mary Mcdonald, but that did not worry me the slightest. Sport and sexuality(ies) is not my area of research (to be hones the main reason for reading this book was to help out one of my students) and thus I did not perceive it as ominous. Besides, in my opinion, young and/or unknown researchers have sometimes the tendency to produce more interesting stuff (they are still enthusiastic and want to prove themselves) than well established scholars.
I was particularly interested in two chapters in Part II about gay sporting subcultures. So I began with those chapters. This turned out to be a fatal mistake.
I do not like to single out chapters from an edited book, but I feel the need to mention the chapter on gay men participating in softball. If I want to express my views on it in a mild manner then I say that this was a surprising read within the sociology-light of sport. On the other hand, if I want to be honest then I admit that I needed a good few hours and some red wine to calm my nerves after reading it. I think it would be inappropriate to teas out particular issues (one could probably write an essay on them), but my advice to other readers: do not start this book by reading chapter four because after that you are going to need a great deal (almost heroic) of effort to continue, and there are chapters in this book which are worth reading.
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