Women in Action Sport Cultures : Identity, Politics and Experience (Paperback, 2016 ed.)

1. Introduction: Contextualizing Women in Action Sport Cultures; Holly Thorpe and Rebecca Olive.- Part I: Researching Gender in Action Sport Cultures.- 2. Looking Back, Moving Forward? Reflections from Early Action Sport Researchers; Holly Thorpe and Rebecca Olive.- 3. Surfing Together: Exploring the Potential of a Collaborative Ethnographic Moment; Rebecca Olive, Holly Thorpe, Georgina Roy, Mihi Nemani, lisahunter, Belinda Wheaton and Barbara Humberstone.- Part II: Gender Relations and Negotiations.- 4. Sporting Gender Relations, Life Course Transitions and Implications for Women Rock Climbers;Victoria Robinson.- 5. 'Don't be a Douche': An Introduction to Sex Integrated Roller Derby; Adele Pavlidis and James Connor.- 6. Parkour, Gendered Power and the Politics of Identity; Belinda Wheaton.- 7. The 'Girl Effect' in Action Sports for Development: The Case of the Female Practitioners of Skateistan; Holly Thorpe and Megan Chawansky.- Part III: Female Action Sport Identities and Lived Experiences.- 8. Negotiating Moral Terrain: Snowboarding Mothers; Lucy Spowart and Lisette Burrows.- 9. 'No One Wants to Mess with an Angry Mom': Females' Negotiation of Power Technologies within a Local Skateboarding Culture; Matthew Atencio, Becky Beal, ZaNean McClain and Missy Wright.- 10. Coming Together and Paddling Out: Lesbian Identities and British Surfing Spaces; Georgina Roy.- 11. The Experiences of 'Brown' Female Bodyboarders: Negotiating Multiple Axes of Marginality; Mihi Nemani and Holly Thorpe.- Part IV: Action Sports in Transition: Consumption, Technology, Risk and Desire.- 12. Technology, Equipment and the Mountain Biker's Taskscape;Kath Bicknell.- 13. The Changing Face of Ultimate Frisbee and the Politics of Inclusion; Hamish Crocket.- 14. Girl Power Figures, Mythic Amazons, and Neoliberal Risk Performers: Discursively Situating Women who Participate in Mixed Martial Arts; Riley Olstead, Charlene Weaving and Kathy Bishoping.- Part 5: Media, Politics and Pedagogies.- 15. Carving Out Space in the Action Sports Media Landscape: The Skirtboarders' Blog as a 'SkateFeminist' Project; Stephanie MacKay.- 16. Becoming Visible: Visual Narratives of 'Female' as a Political Position in Surfing: The History, Perpetuation and Disruption of Patriocolonial Pedagogies?; Lisa Hunter.- 17. Cultural Pedagogies ~ Action Sports; Synthia Sydnor.- Afterword; Sarah Banet-Weiser