Tag: Karen Weiller-Abels

Intersectionality is increasingly used in sport studies and the sociology of sport to move beyond one-dimensional views of inequality and discrimination. The edited volume Not Playing Around: Intersectional Identities, Media Representation, and the Power of Sport by Andrew M. Colombo-Dougovito, Tracy Everbach & Karen Weiller-Abels (Lexington Books) aims to explicate the use of intersectionality in sport studies; however, according to our reviewer Greta Bladh, with very varying degrees of success. What all contributions manage to emphasize, though, and with excellence, is the power of sport.

JSM provides a broad-based exploration of the field and promotes a greater understanding of sports media in terms of their practices, value, and effect on the culture as a whole. The journal features scholarly articles, essays, book reviews, and reports on major conferences and seminars. Editor’s pick from the current issue: Hoping for a Hail Mary: A Critical Feminist Analysis of the NFL’s Post-Rice Tactics by Nicole Cox, Lauren DeCarvalho.

Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal (WSPAJ) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to advancing the understanding of women in sport and physical activity. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “MAKE A HOME RUN FOR SUFFRAGE”: PROMOTING WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION THROUGH BASEBALL by Lindsay Parks Pieper.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. Editor’s pick from the current issue: BANDY V. ICE HOCKEY IN SWEDEN by Torbjörn Andersson.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life.