This study analyzes the marketplace performances that are enacted in the field of women's
flat track roller derby using the theoretical lens of gender performativity. Rather than treating …

I first came across the internet when I saw the famous web-cam set up by researchers in the
Cambridge University computing department, which they used to keep an eye on the coffee …

As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts' derby grrrls' are pushing the boundaries of
gender as they negotiate the nexus of pleasure, pain and power relations. Offering a socio …

As women enter into spheres of production and consumption previously considered
'masculine', there is an opportunity to question the emotions and affects in circulation and …

Skateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of femininity both within
skateboarding and wider culture. This book examines skateboarding's relationship to …

This article explores how the global revival of roller derby as an alternative sport for women
has been mobilised through online social networks, league promotion and fan sites that …

Purpose To introduce critical gender theory to events studies and set an agenda for
research in this area. This paper focuses on various contexts, approaches and applications …

In this article we draw on our varied experiences of conducting feminist sport and leisure
scholarship in digital spaces to offer some reflections, learnings and ways forward for …

In this book series, we defend leisure as a meaningful, theoretical, framing concept; and
critical studies of leisure as a worthwhile intellectual and pedagogical activity. This is what …

Writing about pain in roller derby challenges us to rethink old dichotomies that separate
mind and body,'real'and virtual, feminine and masculine. The 'tough'roller derby 'girl', willing …