Download or read book Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby written by Maddie Breeze and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization and the mid-ranges of agency between dichotomies of voluntarism and determinism.