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Title: Collective Chaos Condition: New Subtitle: A Roller Derby Team Memoir Author: Samantha Tucker, Amy Spears Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0804012423 EAN: 9780804012423 ISBN: 9780804012423 Publisher: Swallow Press Genre: Sports & Hobbies Topic: Social Sciences, Biography, LGBTQ+, Gender Sex & Relationships, Society & Culture Release Date: 11/04/2023 Description: A view into the continuing evolution of the niche-yet-global sport through the historical lens of Ohio Roller Derby, one of the founding leagues of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Part sports autobiography, part cultural critique, this book offers the collective experience of a tenacious group of nontraditional athletes who play, officiate, plan, schedule, market, and manage the business of a (mostly) women’s amateur sports team. This modern sport, with its alternative, punk rock culture, is often a place for those who’ve struggled within the mainstream. But even as the sport is often home for historically marginalized groups, such as the LGBTQ+ community, roller derby organizations and participants often mirror and experience the same inequities as those in the world surrounding them. In a full-contact, theatrical sport that some consider revolutionary, the authors show that gaining truly radical self-knowledge is an ongoing, difficult process that requires love, teamwork, discipline, critical consideration of one’s local and global societies, and—above all else—one’s place and action within them. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Release Year: 2023
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