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02224aam a22003858a 4500 001 7DC1CCEA15F011E3A57C79A9DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130905010028 008 120525s2012 nsc b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2012397913 020 $a 1552665224 020 $a 9781552665220 035 $a (OCoLC)794618813 040 $a NLC $b eng $c NLC $d CDX $d OCLCO $d FDA $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BWX $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d RRP $d ZCU $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a GV706.5 $b .F67 2012 082 04 $a 306.4/83 $2 23 100 1 $a Forsey, Caitlin, $d 1983- 245 10 $a Men on the edge : $b taking risks and doing gender among base jumpers / $c Caitlin Forsey. 260 $a Halifax, NS : $b Fernwood Pub., $c c2012. 263 $a 1209. 300 $a 110 p. : $b ill. ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Fernwood basics. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Base Jumping 101 -- Inbound Trajectories and Mentor/Apprentice Relationships -- Negotiating the Edge: Intersections of Gender and Risk -- The Productive Power of BASE Jumping -- The Will to Live versus The Threat of Dying -- Conclusion. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "In the arena of extreme sports, BASE jumping is among the most dangerous. BASE jumpers leap from fixed objects such as bridges, skyscrapers and cliffs, and freefall for several seconds before parachuting back to earth. Men On The Edge offers a wide-ranging sociological analysis of gender and voluntary risk taking as it unfolds in the context of BASE jumping. This book challenges highly individualistic accounts of voluntary risk taking and extends early attempts to explain the gendered participation in the sport by drawing on wider debates about modernization, individualization, community formation, gender relations and the sociology of the everyday."--Publisher. 650 0 $a Extreme sports $x Sociological aspects. 650 0 $a Risk-taking (Psychology) $x Sociological aspects. 650 0 $a Masculinity in sports. 650 0 $a Sex role. 650 0 $a Parachuting. 830 0 $a Basics from Fernwood Publishing. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826064045.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20130905010515.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7DC1CCEA15F011E3A57C79A9DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search