Tag: Caroline Symons

Routledge Handbook of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, edited by Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Borja García & Benoit Séguin (Routledge) presents new research and broad surveys exploring pressing debates, challenges and possible solutions surrounding the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games, across diverse socioeconomic and political contexts. Our reviewer Björn Sandahl contends that the handbook serves as a rich introduction to its field of study and thus should be of great interest to students and the interested general public.

Originally published in 2014 and edited by Jennifer Hargreaves and Eric Anderson, the Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality comprises 53 chapters penned by 68 internationally renowned sport scholars. According to our reviewer Benjamin Moreland, this perennial handbook is a vital contribution to the academic conversations surrounding gender and sexuality and a foundational read for scholars and students alike.

Jesper Fundberg uppskattar de olika texterna i antologin Sexual Minorities in Sports: Predudice at Play sammanställd av Melanie L. Sartore-Baldwin, och tycker att boken ska vara obligatorisk läsning för svenska barn- och ungdomstränare inom idrottsrörelsen.

Björn Sandahl Södertörns högskola Caroline Symons The Gay Games: A History 302 sidor, inb. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2010 (Routledge Critical Studies in Sport) ISBN 978-0-415-47296-8Forskning om större idrottsevenemang fokuserar ofta det extravaganta,...