| Description |
92 p. |
| Note |
Advisor: Heather Dillaway. |
| Thesis |
Thesis (M.A.)--Wayne State University, 2013. |
| Summary |
Women's flat track roller derby is a growing niche sport that has gathered much attention from media and academics alike. Previous research has analyzed the sport from a gendered view with limited focus on bodies in the broader sense. I attempt to fill this gap in the literature by asking: How do derby skaters define the derby body? In what ways do skaters resist and/or accommodate conventional bodily norms and those within derby? Utilizing an ethnographic repertoire of observation, interviews, and autoethnography, I examine the experiences of women derby skaters for a local flat track league located in the Midwest. Drawing from literature on gender and sport, resistance, and embodiment, I argue that skaters engage with a series of tensions and contradictions between societal norms and derby values, specifically those related to body size, athleticism, public versus private spaces, and the role of non-(born) wormen in the sport. |
| Subject |
Social service
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| Added Title |
Wayne State University thesis (M.A.) : Sociology.
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| OCLC # |
855783592 |
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