Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG

1. Reflexive Ethnography, Women, and Sporting Activities
ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG

2. Just "Tri" and "Du" It: The Variable Impact of Female Involvement in the Triathlon/Duathlon Sport Culture
JANE GRANSKOG

3. Postmodern Aerobics: Contradiction and Resistance
PIRKKO MARKULA

4. Cultural Expressions of African American Female Athletes in Intercollegiate Sport
TERESE M. PERETTO STRATTA

5. Beauty or the Beast: The Subversive Soma
ANNE BOLIN

6. A Woman's Place is in the . . . Cardiovascular Room?? Gender Relations, the Body, and the Gym
SHARI L. DWORKIN

7. Women Who Ride: The Bitch in the Back is Dead
BARBARA JOANS

8. "I Was There . . .": Gendered Limitations, Expectations, and Strategic Assumptions in the World of Co-ed Softball
FAYE LINDA WACHS

9. Changing Body Aesthetics: Diet and Exercise Fads in a Newfoundland Outport Community
DONA DAVIS

10. Kicking Stereotypes into Touch: An Ethnographic Account of Women's Rugby
P. DAVID HOWE

AFTERWORD
Pastimes and Presentimes: Theoretical Issues in Research on Women in Action
ANNE BOLIN AND JANE GRANSKOG

List of Contributors

Index

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