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Subject(s)

• Popular culture—New Zealand—Congresses [Browse]
• Sports—Social aspects—New Zealand—Congresses [Browse]
• Sports—New Zealand—Sociological aspects—Congresses [Browse]
• New Zealand—Social life and customs—Congresses [Browse]

Related name

• Patterson, Brad [Browse]
• Stout Research Centre (Wellington, N.Z.) [Browse]

Notes

"This book collects 16 papers from the Stout Research Centre conference The real level playing field?: sport, society and culture, held in October 1998"--Cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Foreword / Vincent O'Sullivan
• Editor's note / Brad Patterson
• 1. Sport and national identity : race relations, business, professionalism / Chris Laidlaw
• 2. Screw sessions : the pleasures of hammering the hell out of ourselves and others / Brian Turner
• 3. Death of a dream : the fact and fictions of Jack Lovelock / James McNeish
• 4. New Zealanders' attitudes to sport as illustrated by debate over rugby contacts with South Africa / Trevor Richards
• 5. 'Ex-pats' and 'poofters' rebuild the nation : 1982, Kiwi culture and the All Whites on the road to Spain / Bill Keane
• 6. New Zealand's wicket women / Adrienne Simpson
• 7. The missing literature / Lloyd Jones
• 8. Legacy of 'The Tour' : a continued analysis of women's relationship to sport / Shane M. Thompson
• 9. Sport, the media and New Zealand / Patrick Day
• 10. Tall cows, sacred poppies and the fallible pantheon / Michael Grimshaw
• 11. 'On the ball' : New Zealand's rugby song / Allan Thomas
• 12. Clashes of cultures and class : the jockeys' strike of 1920 / David Grant
• 13. Literature, journalism and sport in New Zealand / Roger Robinson
• 14. Nineteenth-century women on bicycles redefine respectability / Clare Simpson
• 15. Sport, class and community in canterbury, 1850-1880 : the evidence from Rowing / Geoffrey T. Vincent
• 16. Fishing for empire : sport and travel in New Zealand from the 1870s to the 1930s / Lydia Wevers.

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Other title(s)

Sport, society and culture in New Zealand

ISBN

0473064030 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001430678

OCLC

48013518

RCP

H - S

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