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Introduction -- Theorizing sporting masculinities -- Problematizing 'extreme' sports -- Men's sporting identities -- 'Belay bunnies' : sport, gender relations and masculinities -- Sporting inner lives : emotions, intimacies and friendship -- The sporting balance : family, relationships and work -- Everyday sporting bodies -- Risking it

This article explores the transformatory potential of the lived realities of people's everyday social lives, seen here to be patterned by a dynamic interplay between the 'mundane' and the 'extraordinary'. Their interaction acts as an interpretive device that can generate new, empirically grounded theoretical insights. Thus, I argue for greater recognition and focus on relationality and connectedness, or rather, that is to say, a meso-level in between structure and agency that individuals both contribute to and are influenced by within everyday life. Using data from a qualitative three year ESRC-funded study of identity, transition and footwear, the article weaves these concerns together with a focus on women's agency, as seen through the interpretive capacity of the mundane and the extraordinary. In so doing, the boundaries and relationship of the mundane and the extraordinary are reconceptualised.

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Intro -- BRIEF CONTENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION Victoria Robinson and Diane Richardson -- The development of women's and gender studies -- Challenging futures? -- Conclusion -- 1: CONCEPTUALISING GENDER -- Introduction -- The idea of gender -- The sex/gender binary -- Sex as a social construction -- Feminist gender theory -- Gender roles -- Gender as hierarchy -- Intersectionality -- Postmodern theories of gender -- Gender and sexuality: feminist and queer theories -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 2: FEMINIST AND GENDER THEORIES Sally Hines -- Introduction -- Early feminist perspectives: radical, Marxist, dual systems theory and liberal feminism -- The recognition of difference: deconstructionist feminist approaches -- Post-structuralist and queer feminist theories -- Criticisms of deconstructionism -- Building common ground -- Intersectionality -- Global and post-colonial feminisms -- Transgender feminism -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 3: GENDER, POLITICS AND ACTIVISM Nickie Charles -- Introduction -- Feminist social movements -- The birth of women's and gender studies -- New social movements -- Cultural politics -- The temporality of feminist activism -- Case study one: young women's feminist activism in the UK -- Case study two: #MeToo and hashtag feminism -- Feminism and political institutions -- The 'masculine blueprint' -- Quotas -- Changing politics -- Policy change -- Working environment -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 4: GENDER-SENSITIVE METHOD/OLOGIES Gayle Letherby -- Introduction -- Taking gender seriously -- Different differences -- Counting, quoting and other interesting stuff -- Gender-sensitive researchers -- Epistemological concerns -- Influence and impact -- Conclusion -- Further reading.

"Written by a host of internationally renowned experts, this substantially revised new edition provides an important overview of gender and feminism today. The 4th edition combines classic and new work, looking at intersectionality, masculinity theory and the environment, whilst offering insightful comparisons of global examples. "--

"Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary masculinity"--