Identity, Belonging, and Community in Men's Roller Derby

ISBN-13: 9781032172712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str.

Dawn Fletcher

Opis

Identity, Belonging, and Community in Men’s Roller Derby offers an insight into how men’s roller derby culture is created and maintained, how members forge an identity for themselves and their team, and how they create feelings of belonging and inclusivity.

Spis treści

1. Not just a girls’ sport

2. Community and engagement

3. Image and identity

4. Belonging and inclusivity

5. Barriers to belonging

6. Skills capital and acceptable masculinities

O autorze

Dawn Fletcher is a qualitative researcher working in the fields of gender and sport. She has published articles on skills capital and trans inclusion in roller derby and is especially interested in the possibilities for diversity and inclusion in alternative sports.