Sport and Leisure Studies

This reader collects several pieces of valuable, interesting and, in some cases, classic essays and extracts that have been widely recommended over the years, yet which are not always readily available...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The book offers a series of cutting-edge contemporary historical case-studies, broad ranging in their geographical coverage and in their social and religious contexts...

Drawing on Chinese sources hitherto unavailable in the West, official documents, and interviews with top athletes, the author explores the rise of Chinese super sportswomen...

This book presents a critical examination of youth sport policies and management, from the grassroots to the elite levels in a variety of countries around the world. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Sport in Society...

Youth Culture and Sport critically interrogates and challenges contemporary articulations of race, class, gender, and sexual relations circulating throughout popular iterations of youth sporting culture in late-capitalism...

Youth Culture and Sport critically interrogates and challenges contemporary articulations of race, class, gender, and sexual relations circulating throughout popular iterations of youth sporting culture in late-capitalism...

`Race',Sport and British Society challenges the view that sport is one part of society where 'good race-relations' are developed. The book offers a wealth of research material and a strong theoretical view on contemporary British sports...