The Last True Roller Derby
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The Last True Roller Derby
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Author : Larry Smith
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2016-02-20
The Last True Roller Derby written by Larry Smith and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Larry Smith got some strange looks as a boy when he told everyone he wanted to join the Roller Derby, but he’d go on to have the time of his life living out his dream. As a member of the International Roller Derby League, he engaged in a style of play that gave the fans what they wanted: fights, hard skating, and great athletic ability combined with a fast-paced game. As a member of Roller Derby, he and his teammates welcomed minorities in the 1960s when racial tension was at its peak. Whites and blacks skated together, roomed together, and stuck together like brothers and sisters. Smith and his teammates sold out everywhere they played: Madison Square Garden, the Chicago Coliseum, San Francisco’s Cow Palace, White Sox Park, the Montreal Forum, and hundreds of smaller venues. While the quality of the game ultimately declined, Smith was there for its glory years, and he remembers it all as if it were yesterday. He looks back on his many adventures—some of them almost unbelievable—in The Last “True” Roller Derby.
Roller Derby
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Author : Michella M. Marino
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2021-10-12
Roller Derby written by Michella M. Marino and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Since 1935, roller derby has thrilled fans and skaters with its constant action, hard hits, and edgy attitude. However, though its participants’ athleticism is undeniable, roller derby has never been accepted as a “real” sport. Michella M. Marino, herself a former skater, tackles the history of a sport that has long been a cultural mainstay for one reason both utterly simple and infinitely complex: roller derby has always been coed. Richly illustrated and drawing on oral histories, archival materials, media coverage, and personal experiences, Roller Derby is the first comprehensive history of this cultural phenomenon, one enjoyed by millions yet spurned by mainstream gatekeepers. Amid the social constraints of the mid-twentieth century, roller derby’s emphasis on gender equality attracted male and female athletes alike, producing gender relations and gender politics unlike those of traditional sex-segregated sports. In an enlightening feminist critique, Marino considers how the promotion of pregnancy and motherhood by roller derby management has simultaneously challenged and conformed to social norms. Finally, Marino assesses the sport’s present and future after its resurgence in the 2000s.
Roller Derby
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Author : Demi Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Release Date : 2015-07-15
Roller Derby written by Demi Jackson and has been published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Roller derby is an extreme sport making a comeback! With a history that dates back to the 1930s, in the last decade, roller derby teams have grown in number and popularity. Readers take a turn around the track and discover that, from hard hits to fast breaks, the action in roller derby is nonstop. Full-color photographs highlight the mostly female teams who dominate the sport and the theatrical quality of each jam, or matchup. Safety tips offer help to new skaters, as this sport can get aggressive fast.
Roller Derby
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Author : Martha London
language : en
Publisher: ABDO
Release Date : 2019-12-15
Roller Derby written by Martha London and has been published by ABDO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This title introduces young sports fans to roller derby, introducing the sport's history, rules, equipment, and why more and more athletes love playing it. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Roller Derby
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Author : Michella M. Marino
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Roller Derby written by Michella M. Marino and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Electronic books categories.
Roller Derby
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Author : Catherine Mabe
language : en
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Roller Derby written by Catherine Mabe and has been published by Fulcrum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Roller derbies categories.
Roller derby is back in a big way-here's the whole story, then and now.
The Last True Cowboy
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Author : Laura Drake
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-12-04
The Last True Cowboy written by Laura Drake and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-04 with Fiction categories.
The award-winning author who "writes real cowboys with heart and soul" (Carolyn Brown, New York Times bestselling author) welcomes you to Unforgiven, New Mexico, a small western town filled with love and second chances! This cowboy's got one last chance to prove himself. Carly Beauchamp has loved cowboy Austin Davis since first grade. Ask anyone in their dusty, backwater New Mexico town of Unforgiven, and they'll say "Carly and Austin" the way some say "big trucks and country boys." But after years of waiting for a wedding ring, Carly's done with being a rodeo widow . . . Austin never meant to put his career on the circuit before Carly. She's always been his future, his one and only. But now that she's moved on, he's beginning to see where he went wrong, and he'll do anything to win her back. The only thing is, Carly's suddenly acting differently, and she's definitely hiding a secret-one that will test the depth of their love and open up a whole new world of possibilities. Praise for Laura Drake and The Last True Cowboy: "Brilliant writing, just brilliant!" -- Lori Wilde, New York Times bestselling author "Laura Drake writes real cowboys with heart and soul." -- Carolyn Brown, New York Times bestselling author "Drake (Sweet on You) takes readers on a beautifully imperfect journey with two people who can no longer have their ideal future, but learn that the real one might be even better." -- Publishers Weekly "This is a romance with grit, heart and just the right amount of sizzle." -- BookPage
Roller Derby
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 19??
Roller Derby written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 19?? with Printed ephemera categories.
The ephemera collection contains documents of everyday life generally covering publications of fewer than five pages. These may include: advertising material, area guides, booklets, brochures, samples of merchandise postcards, posters, programs, stickers and tickets.
Down And Derby
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Author : Alex Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2010-07-13
Down And Derby written by Alex Cohen and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-13 with Sports & Recreation categories.
“Part manifesto, part how-to-guide . . . required reading for anyone who’s searching for new ways to be fearless.” —Carrie Brownstein When most Americans hear the words “roller derby” today, they think of the kitschy sport once popular on weekend television during the seventies and eighties. Originally an endurance competition where skaters traveled the equivalent of a trip between Los Angeles and New York, roller derby gradually evolved into a violent contact sport often involving fake fighting, and a kitschy weekend-television staple during the seventies and eighties. But in recent decades it’s come back strong, with more than 17,000 skaters in more than four hundred leagues around the world, and countless die-hard fans. Down and Derby will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the sport. Written by veteran skaters as both a history and a how-to, it’s a brassy celebration of every aspect of the sport, from its origins in the late 1800s, to the rules of a modern bout, to the science of picking an alias, to the many ways you can get involved off skates. Informative, entertaining, and executed with the same tough, sassy, DIY attitude—leavened with plenty of humor—that the sport is known for, Down and Derby is a great read for both skaters and spectators.
Sport Gender And Power
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Author : Dr Simone Fullagar
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2014-11-28
Sport Gender And Power written by Dr Simone Fullagar and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-28 with Sports & Recreation categories.
As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts ‘derby grrrls’ are pushing the boundaries of gender as they negotiate the nexus of pleasure, pain and power relations. Offering a socio-cultural analysis of the rise and reinvention of roller derby as both a new, globalized women’s sport and an everyday creative leisure space, this book explores the manner in which roller derby has emerged as a gendered space for self-transformation, belonging and embodied contest, in which women are invited to experience their emotions differently, embrace pain and overcome limits.