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By Rita Liberti,Maureen Smith
San Francisco Bay sector Sports brings jointly fifteen essays overlaying the problems, controversies, and personalities that experience emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the past one hundred fifty years. The area’s range, anti-establishment leanings, and detailed and gorgeous normal atmosphere are explored within the context of a dynamic wearing previous that incorporates occasions broadcast to hundreds of thousands or actions engaged in through only a few.
Professional and faculty occasions are lined besides lesser-known entities similar to Oakland’s public parks, tennis participant and Bay zone local Rosie Casals, environmentalism and climbing in Marin County, and the origins of the homosexual video games. Taken as a complete, this booklet clarifies how game is attached to identities in line with sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity. simply as the most important, the tales right here remove darkness from how recreation and game can possibly create transgressive areas, particularity in a spot recognized for its nonconformity.
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San Francisco Bay Area Sports: Golden Gate Athletics, Recreation, and Community (Sport, Culture, and Society) by Rita Liberti,Maureen Smith
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