Mother's taxi : sport and women's labor / Shona M. Thompson.

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Thompson, Shona M, 1951-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relationsPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1999.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585090912
9780585090917

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mother's taxi.DDC classification:

796.4/83 21

LOC classification:

GV706.5 .T55 1999eb

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Contents:

Being the mother of a sports player -- Being the wife of a sports player -- Being a sports player -- Rewards and rationales -- Gendered institutions service gendered institutions -- Background to tennis culture in Western Australia -- The ASCNSRC survey of parental support.

Review: "Mother's Taxi is a detailed study of how women facilitate and service the sport played by others, particularly their immediate family members. It illustrates how domestic labor and childcare done by women provides the space for others to participate in sport, contributing directly to individual sporting careers and generally servicing sport as an institution. It offers important considerations for studies of sport, leisure, and gender relations by highlighting an aspect of women's relationships to sport which has been largely ignored."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309) and indexes.

"Mother's Taxi is a detailed study of how women facilitate and service the sport played by others, particularly their immediate family members. It illustrates how domestic labor and childcare done by women provides the space for others to participate in sport, contributing directly to individual sporting careers and generally servicing sport as an institution. It offers important considerations for studies of sport, leisure, and gender relations by highlighting an aspect of women's relationships to sport which has been largely ignored."--Jacket.

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