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- Set in a fictional near future, Terra Ludus is a gripping tale of what can happen when individuals stand up for equal rights and makes us ask whether each new generation has to fight for social justice anew
- Terra Ludus brings contemporary sociological research to life, creating a vital story that challenges our taken-for-granted understandings of gender, and offers discussion, creative writing and performance exercises that invite readers to explore their own lives
- Asking what might happen when established ideas about women and sport are challenged head-on by women athletes, Terra Ludus takes readers on a roller-coaster ride through a future world that is both horrifying and wondrous
- Through powerful storytelling, Terra Ludus confronts the spectacular failure of activists and sports fans to convince mainstream media to increase coverage of women’s sport; her compelling characters turn the standard narrative on its head and take readers along for the ride
Part of the book series: Social Fictions Series (SFS)
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
“Toni Bruce turns her keen literary eye on the spectacular failure of sport studies scholars and activists to convince mainstream sports media to increase coverage of women’s sport. Her gripping story turns this narrative on its head, and shows all of us how things could be different. Terra Ludus shows us how to move forward. This is the power of storytelling.” Norman K. Denzin, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Using popular culture pedagogically to think about popular culture and power, Terra Ludus is a valuable tool for critical thought.” Lawrence Grossberg, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Terra Ludus is a sine qua non tale about Third Wave Feminism. Set in a future society, it asks: What could happen if dominant ideas about women, sports, sexuality, ethnicity and the media left-over from the Twentieth-Century are challenged head-on by women athletes? Finding out will keep readers reading, students buzzing.” Laurel Richardson, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Toni Bruce, Ph.D., is a sport sociologist and media scholar at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Terra Ludus
Book Subtitle: A Novel about Media, Gender and Sport
Authors: Toni Bruce
Series Title: Social Fictions Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-770-2
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-770-2Published: 25 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 228
Topics: Education, general