Sex and gender are interconnected, conflated, different, and complex. Arguably, there is no cultural arena more affected by the complexity of sex/gender than sport, where the presumed need for a male/female binary is personalized, medicalized, and politicized. Gender Defenders of the Sport Binary considers how medical, policy, and media discourses shape understanding of nonbinary athletes, and more broadly cultural understandings of gender as chosen and sex as biologically measura...

CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic examines the central role of mediain constructing an entangled relationship between chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and the National Football League (NFL), challenging a predominately symbiotic sports/media complex. The authors of this book analyze more than a decade of media coverage, along with three prominent films, to unpack how media discourse resurrects CTE, a preventable degenerative brain disease ...

Health Communication and Sport: Connections, Applications, and Opportunities aggregates sport and health communication into a collective resource that advances scholarly inquiry at the intersection of these two fields. Through bringing together a collaborative of scholars and practitioners who are doing work in areas ranging from mental health, to media, to youth sports, and social media, this volume evaluates health communication issues in sport contexts and inspires work that will answer...

Beer culture has grown exponentially in the United States, from the days of Prohibition to the signing of HR 1337 by then-President Jimmy Carter, which legalized homebrewing for personal and household use, to the potential hop shortage that all brewers are facing today. This expansion of the culture, both socially and commercially, has created a linguistic and cultural turn that is just now starting to be fully recognized. The contributors of Beer Culture in Theory and Practice: Unders...

A sleuth rescues two orphaned Golden Retrievers—and tries to solve their master’s murder—in this “delightful” mystery from the Agatha Award finalist (Publishers Weekly).This year, all Melanie wants for Christmas is a dull moment. Between her teaching job, and showing her Standard Poodle puppy, there just aren’t enough hours in the day. But when her son Davey’s usual bus driver, Henry Pruitt, disappears and is replaced by a surly, pierced twentysomething, M...

This is the story of the adventures of two Labrador retrievers named Mosby and Bell. Mosby is a rust color with a big white “M” on his chest with white paws. Bell is mostly white with light beige ears and a little black dot on her back left hip. Mosby likes to chase birds, howl with the fire truck’s sirens, and steal socks. Bell likes to lick everything, chase baseballs, and have her belly rubbed. Both dogs love peanut butter, ice cream, and lying on the front porch, watching over their ho...

This is the story of the adventures of two Labrador retrievers named Mosby and Bell. Mosby is a rust color with a big white M on his chest with white paws. Bell is mostly white with light beige ears and a little black dot on her back left hip. Mosby likes to chase birds, howl with the fire truck's sirens, and steal socks. Bell likes to lick everything, chase baseballs, and have her belly rubbed. Both dogs love peanut butter, ice cream, and lying on the front porch, watching over their hous...