Preface
Abbreviations
1. The Blades, Women's Ice Hockey, and Paradoxes of Gender
2. Competitive Dominance, Class, and the Organization of Women's Hockey
3. The Dynamics of Team Life: This Team Is about What Happens on the Ice
4. The Everyday World of Elite Women's Hockey
5. The Politics of Gender
6. The Change Room and the Construction of Community
7. Physicality, Body Contact, and the Construction of Women's Hockey
8. Gender, Sport, and the Construction of Difference
9. Female Gladiators and the Road Ahead
Notes
Index