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Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, and Violence against Women by Walter S. DeKeseredy, Stu Cowan, Martin D. Schwartz, Heather Mallick, Jack Todd is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, and Violence against Women about?

The book examines the abusive, misogynistic, racist, and homophobic behaviors found in professional hockey and explains the larger societal forces that perpetuate and legitimate these harms. Confirming a recent federal government inquiry into Hockey Canada’s handling of sexual assault allegations, the book reveals that young men enter the NHL and other revenue-generating hockey leagues already trained and primed to treat women as objects – and often to commit violent acts against them. Rooted in the authors’ work in the sports world as well as their work with activists and governments, Skating on Thin Ice doesn’t just highlight the problem of hockey and rape culture, it also provides collaborative solutions for fixing it.Walter S. DeKeseredy is the Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, director of the Research Center on Violence, and a professor of sociology at West Virginia University. He has published 27 books, over 130 scientific journal articles, and close to 100 scholarly book chapters on violence against women and other social problems. He has earned numerous prestigious awards throughout his career, including the American Society of Criminology’s 2022 Praxis A

Who reads Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, and Violence against Women?

Author

Walter S. DeKeseredy, Stu Cowan, Martin D. Schwartz, Heather Mallick, Jack Todd

Publisher

Aevo UTP, an imprint of University of Toronto Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781487547103

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Civil Rights Law