Bodies as bearers of value: The transmission of jock culture via the 'Twelve Commandments'

Sport, Education and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 295-316

  Sparkes, Andrew C ^a   Partington, Elizabeth ^b   Brown, David H K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bodies; Gender; Habitus; Identity; Jock culture; Masculinity; Physical capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547534141     PISSN: 13573322     EISSN: 14701243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13573320701464150     Document Type: Article

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