Author Description

Sexuality, Sport and the Culture of Risk explores serious issues in youth culture across a broad range of contexts. The matters explored are not only critical because they are fundamental emerging problems in youth culture, but also because they present ideologies, scenarios, and principles of individual lives in non-traditional, rebellious and alternative frameworks. Each chapter deals with ideas within theories, methodologies and lifestyles that are confrontational, postmodern and designed to question the comfortable research zones of many traditional academics working in sociology. Sexuality, Sport and the Culture of Risk brings together leading academics, many of whom have been cross-examining traditional views about youth culture for some time. Their work is thought-provoking, innovative, entertaining and at the cutting edge of contemporary sociology. Sexuality, Sport and the Culture of Risk is designed for both undergraduate and graduate programs and will also be accessible for parents and community members who work with youth and their families. The book will introduce new theoretical perspectives linked to culture, so that complex ideas are made accessible. In this way, it will provide new lenses for considering fundamental issues which have hitherto gone unnoticed in society. --Book Jacket.