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Collective Chaos : A Roller Derby Team Memoir
Author
Title
Collective Chaos : A Roller Derby Team Memoir / Samantha Tucker with Amy Spears.
ISBN
9780804041195
9780804012423
Publication
Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, [2023]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©[2023]
Physical Description
1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Through stories about playing this full-contact, theatrical, and revolutionary sport, Collective Chaos shows the value of gaining a truly radical self-knowledge through teamwork, love, discipline, and critical consideration of our local and global societies and of our roles and responsibilities within them"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
The basics
What the heck Is roller derby anyway?
These United Skates
Ohio player profile: The tiny dictator
A word from Amy Spears, Ohio native
Small to get big
Ohio player profile: the humbly great
A word from Amy Spears, slightly famous in roller derby
False start
Ohio player profile: the wizard
A word from Amy Spears, roller derby historian
Fresh meat
Ohio player profile : the next generation
A word from Amy Spears, who invented roller derby
Pivot
Ohio player profile: the mastermind
A word from Amy Spears, married, divorced, remarried to roller derby
Mindful jockdom
Ohio player profile: The inspiration
A word from Amy Spears, washed-up roller derby skater
O-H-I-O
Ohio player profile: The force
A word from Amy Spears: derby lifer
Derby veteran
Ohio player profile : The forever rookies
A word from Amy Spears: the season that never happened
We got tired
Ohio player profile: Kegel's wife
A word from Amy Spears: democracy and protest
Racism in roller derby
Ohio player profile: a word from pain train
A word from Amy Spears: roller derby in the Future.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biographies.
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