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"This book includes articles which define relationship between aggression and violence in sport and society; define the role of fair play in educational settings, the mass media, female abuse and the law; and provides policy makers with clear recommendations to support and enhance the concept of fair play."--P. [4] of cover

This state-of-the-art Research Handbook provides a challenging and critical examination of the complex issues surrounding sports in contemporary societies. Featuring contributions from world-leading scholars, it focuses upon the impact of their research, together with significant social issues and controversies in sport.

Introduction -- The Concept of Fairness: The Veronica Ivy Case as Example -- The Ideal of Equality -- Equality and Power -- The Ideological Enforcement of Feminist Ideology on Institutions of Higher Education in Sweden -- Gender Equality in Sport: The Right to Take Part -- Gender Equality in Sport: The Right to the Same Privileges -- The Fairness of Equal Pay -- The Problem of Equal Pay -- Equal Pay and Athletes' Interests -- Equal Pay and The Free Market -- Equal Pay Between the Sexes in Sports -- The Status of Women's Football -- Female Attraction -- Protection of the Weaker Sex -- Conclusion: The Problem of Squaring the Circle.

"The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society features leading international scholars' assessments of scholarly inquiry about sport and society. Divided into six sections, chapters consider dominant issues within key areas, approaches (theory and method) featured in inquiry, and debates needing resolution. Part I: Society and Values considers matters of character, ideology, power, politics, policy, nationalism, diplomacy, militarism, law, ethics, and religion. Part II: Enterprise and Capital considers globalization, spectacle, mega-events, Olympism, corruption, impacts on cities, communities, and the environment, and the press of leadership cultures, economic imperatives, and marketing. Part III: Participation and Cultures considers questions of health and well-being, violence, the medicalization of injury, influences of science and technology, substance use and abuse, the roles of coaching and emotion, challenges of child maltreatment, climates for scandal and athlete activism, and questions over animals in sporting competition. Part IV: Lifespan and Careers considers child socialization, youth and elite athlete development, the roles of sport in education and social mobility, migratory sport labor practices, arcs defining athletic careers, aging, and retirement, and emergent lifestyle sport cultures. Part V: Inclusion and Exclusion considers sport's role in social inclusion and exclusion, development and discrimination, and features treatments of race and ethnicity, indigenous experiences, the intersection of bodily ideals, obesity, and disability, and the gendered impacts on masculinities, femininities, and non-binary experience. Part VI: Spectator Engagement and Media considers sporting heroism and celebrity, fandom and hooliganism, gambling and match-fixing, and the influences of sport journalism, television and film treatments, advertising, and new media"--