Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts.

Holly Thorpe is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has published widely on the topics of sociology of sport, social theory, physical youth culture, gender, and extreme sports.

Acknowledgements
Introducing a Sociology of Snowboarding Bodies
Remembering the Snowboarding Body
Producing and Consuming the Snowboarding Body
Representing the Boarding Body: Discourse, Power and the Snowboarding Media
Cultural Boarding Bodies: Status, Style and Symbolic Capital
Female Boarding Bodies: Betties, Babes and Bad-Asses
Male Boarding Bodies: Pleasure, Pain and Performance
Transnational Boarding Bodies: Travel, Tourism and Lifestyle Sport Migration
Sensual Snowboarding Bodies in Affective Spaces
Body Politics, Social Change and the Future of Physical Cultural Studies
Bibliography
Notes
Index