Download or read book Wives of Professional Athletes written by Beverly Jean Crute and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sidelined No More written by Eileen Noyes and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sidelined No More discusses one of the greatest struggles of a wife married to a high-profile professional athlete: losing her identity. When she's thrust into a world of fame, fortune, stress, and pressure, few can relate to or comprehend it. A woman who was once strong, confident, and sure of herself doesn't even recognize who she sees in the mirror. Who understands? Who can sympathize? Who even sees that there's a woman behind the shadows of her husband longing to be seen, uncertain of her purpose, and doubtful of her worth? As a former NFL wife herself, author Eileen Noyes will walk with you on a journey to get you out of the shadows and truly living again. "I see her. I can sympathize. I understand because I was her." --Eileen

Download or read book When Happiness Ends and Coping Begins written by Steven Michael Ortiz and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sport Marriage written by Steven M. Ortiz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sport Marriage, Steven M. Ortiz draws on studies he conducted over nearly three decades that focus on the marital realities confronted by women married to male professional athletes. These women, who are usually portrayed in unflattering and/or unrealistic terms, face enormous challenges in their attempts to establish and maintain functional marital and family lives while the husband routinely puts his career first. Ortiz defines the traditional sport marriage as a career-dominated marriage, illustrating how it encourages women to contribute to their own subordination through adherence to an unwritten rulebook and a repertoire of self-management strategies. He explains how they make invaluable contributions to their husbands’ careers while adjusting to public life and trying to maintain family privacy, managing power and control issues, and coping with pervasive groupies, overinvolved mothers, a culture of infidelity, and husbands who prioritize team loyalty. He gives these historically silent women a voice, offering readers perceptive and sensitive insight into what it means to be a woman in the male-dominated world of professional sports.

Download or read book Orange Coast Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orange Coast Magazine is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region, bringing together Orange County¹s most affluent coastal communities through smart, fun, and timely editorial content, as well as compelling photographs and design. Each issue features an award-winning blend of celebrity and newsmaker profiles, service journalism, and authoritative articles on dining, fashion, home design, and travel. As Orange County¹s only paid subscription lifestyle magazine with circulation figures guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Orange Coast is the definitive guidebook into the county¹s luxe lifestyle.

Download or read book At the Heart of Work and Family written by Anita Ilta Garey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Heart of Work and Family presents original research on work and family by scholars who engage and build on the conceptual framework developed by well-known sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. These concepts, such as "the second shift," "the economy of gratitude," "emotion work," "feeling rules," "gender strategies," and "the time bind," are basic to sociology and have shaped both popular discussions and academic study. The common thread in these essays covering the gender division of housework, childcare networks, families in the global economy, and children of consumers is the incorporation of emotion, feelings, and meaning into the study of working families. These examinations, like Hochschild's own work, connect micro-level interaction to larger social and economic forces and illustrate the continued relevance of linking economic relations to emotional ones for understanding contemporary work-family life.

Download or read book Media Representations of Footballers Wives written by J. Bullen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing a detailed analysis of footballers' wives and their role in contemporary British culture, this books explores how the generic and stereotypical 'Wag' has been created by newspaper and magazine coverage, auto/biographies and influential television programmes.

Download or read book Family and Sport written by Steven M. Ortiz and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the microlevel of the family to grapple with contemporary social issues at the macrolevel of society, this volume charts new territory to advance a valuable understanding of family and sport issues.

Download or read book The Dark Side of Sports written by Nick T. Pappas and published by Meyer & Meyer Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite-level athletes are placed upon heightened pedestals in societies world-wide. At the same time, there is dark side to these glorified competitors that remains hidden from those outside of exclusive athletic circles. Dr. Nick Pappas' unique background as a former collegiate and professional hockey player and coach in combination with his experience as a researcher, professional counselor, and adjunct professor have provided him with knowledge and inside access to a variety of athlete cultures. This has enabled Dr. Pappas to uncover an array of disturbing sexual behaviors which have silently thrived for decades in many athlete cultures. These practices, expressed through the athletes own words along with their frequencies, motives, and consequences, are the result of over 10 years of cutting-edge research involving in depth interviews with 142 collegiate and professional athletes from five major U.S. sports. While these findings are certain to shock, raise awareness, and provide a wake-up call for those in and outside of the sports world, they also highlight a sense of urgency for taking action against these harmful behaviors now. "The Dark Side of Sports" has strong appeal for diverse audiences because it highlights the need for risk management in every male athletic culture. This includes individuals with direct involvement in sports such as athletes, coaches, managers, administrators, and support staff who see the importance of addressing and deterring potentially harmful and dangerous behavior that can ruin an athletic program's reputation in an instant. At the same time, this book serves as an invaluable resource for parents, women, and fans by raising awareness to the significant issues surrounding a darker, hidden side of sports. The fact that certain negative practices were discovered at the high school level means that millions of middle and high school coaches and athletes, in addition to those at elite levels, need this information to keep deviant practices from gaining a foothold and becoming normalized within youth-oriented sports cultures. Finally, "The Dark Side of Sports" will be a welcomed addition to courses such as sociology of sport, sports psychology, women's studies, and an array of sociology classes including deviant behavior.

Download or read book The Psychological and Sociological Effects of Professional Sport on the Wives and Families of Professional Athletes written by Anne K. Powers and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Men of Sunday written by Curtis Eichelberger and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the locker rooms and living rooms of NFL players and their families to see how a close relationship with God guides football's biggest stars. In a behind-the-scenes, off-the-field glimpse into one of America's most beloved sports, Men of Sunday reveals how Sunday's greatest rely on God to face issues such as drug abuse, family crisis, injuries, and temptations resulting from fame and fortune. Compiled from dozens of interviews, Men of Sunday marks the intersection of two Sunday traditions: faith and football. Inspired by the league's "systemic shift" toward embracing Christianity, Bloomberg writer Curtis Eichelberger shows how God is a source of comfort when facing the unique challenges of life in the NFL and the everyday challenges of maintaining strong families and building character. Featured personalities include Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis New York Jets running back LaDainian Tomlinson Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers Former Chicago Bears middle linebacker Mike Singletary Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis Former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy San Diego Chargers pastor Shawn Mitchell Danisha Rolle, wife of former Tennessee and Baltimore defensive back Samari Rolle And many more Men of Sunday is a must-have for any football fan, teaching the invaluable lesson of trusting in the Lord—both on and off the field.

Download or read book The Wife of a Cartel Boss 2 written by Krystle Yvette and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second installment the gang is back and fighting to keep the enemies out of their circle. Chicago and Dallas have two of the most ruthless cartel bosses known to man: Kinslei and Johan. Since their relationship started Kinslei and Johan have been on a roller-coaster ride. Nothing could stop or change the love they had for one another though. Will their love withstand the nemeses and hatred? At this point they would be considered a modern day Frank Lucas and Jemeker Thompson. They built their empires with blood sweat, and tears. Just like anything there’s always greedy, disloyal, and scandalous people lurking to take your spot. The strong have survived and the weak have been uncovered. Who will be left standing? Follow me in my second installment of murder, dishonesty, and treachery to see who will be left standing.

Download or read book Inside Pitch written by George Gmelch and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the spark of ambition to play baseball professionally to the necessity of reinventing life after baseball, the anthropologist and former Minor Leaguer George Gmelch describes the lives of the men who work at America's national game. Twenty-four years after his own final road trip as a minor leaguer, Gmelch went back on the road with ballplayers, this time with a pen and pad to record the details of life around the diamond. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with Major and Minor League players, coaches, and managers, Gmelch explores players' experiences throughout their careers: being scouted, becoming a rookie, moving through or staying in the Minors, preparing mentally and physically to play day after day, coping with slumps and successes, and facing retirement. He examines the ballplayers' routines and rituals, describes their joys and frustrations, and investigates the roles of wives, fans, and groupies in their lives. Based on his own experience as a player in the 1960s, Gmelch charts the life cycle of the modern professional ballplayer and makes perceptive comparisons to a previous generation of players.

Download or read book Studies in Symbolic Interaction written by Norman K. Denzin and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vibrant volume is a creative mix of contributions, including seminal essays and interpretive works, from researchers and writers in the area of popular music and major players in the bright future of symbolic interaction. Genres discussed range from country, jazz and the virtuoso to latino, grindcore and extreme metal.

Download or read book We are Just Everyday People and Women written by Hope E. Grame-Zeller and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The professional sport career has been identified as a two-person career (Dixon, Bruening, Mazerolle, Davis, Crowder, & Lorsbach, 2006; Papanek, 1973), in which the demands of the sport industry require two people to contribute to the career in order for the paid employee to be successful (Knoppers, 1992). It has been argued that the two-person career heavily affects the work-family interaction, as it requires the paid worker, such as a professional athlete, to put in considerable time and other resources, and it requires another full-time person, typically the athlete's wife, to manage domestic tasks to shield the worker from any non-work distractions (Budig, 2002; Knoppers). This career-dominated marriage arrangement has been found to lead to the sport wife providing a heavy investment of unpaid work to the sport career, which some argue is an exploitation of women and their free labor that ultimately benefit others for the maintenance and reproduction of sport (Ortiz, 2006; Thompson, 1990). Previous research has shown that professional sport wives experience a variety of disparities at the hands of the sport marriage, including the sacrifice of their own careers, social isolation and loneliness, assuming sole responsibility for domestic and family work, and managing the unpredictable aspects of the sport industry that are beyond the wives' control (Dixon & Bruening, 2005; Gmelch & San Antonio, 2001; Ortiz, 2001; Roderick, 2012; Thompson, 1990). The sport wife's investment in the sport career often aligns with traditional gender roles in which the woman serves her husband and family to the benefit of her husband and his career (Ortiz, 2006). Hochschild (2012) argues that this unpaid domestic work is not only undervalued by society, but it is expected and simultaneously ignored, marginalizing women and their unpaid work as inferior to their husband's and their paid work. Ortiz (2002) finds that participating in a marriage that is largely shaped by hegemonic masculine-dominate sport industry leads the wife to feeling out of control and powerless in many areas of her life, often negotiating her identity and coordination of gender roles. Additionally, sport wives have shared their experiences of feeling lonely and socially isolated, only finding acceptance through the collective identities they share with their respective husbands, while also battling the stereotypes associated with sport wives (Binns-Terrill, 2012; Gmelch & San Antonio; Ortiz, 2002; Roderick, Simonetto, 2019). The majority of sport wife literature was completed prior to the development and increased use of social media (e.g., Binns-Terrill, 2012; Dixon et al., 2006; Gmelch & San Antonio, 2001; Ortiz, 1997, 2011; Roderick, 2012). Sanderson (2009) explains that the publicity opportunities through social media have allowed athletes and others to assume greater control over their public representations shared with large audiences (Sanderson, 2009). While athletes' use of social media to control their self-presentations has been studied extensively (e.g., Geurin- Eagleman & Bruch, 2015; Lebel & Danylchuk, 2012; Pegoraro, 2010; Smith & Sanderson, 2015), the secondary actor in the two-person career, the wife, has yet to be evaluated with regard to her use of social media to manage her self-presentation. It has yet to be determined whether and how the wife manages her work in the sport career, her identity, her coordination of gender roles, and her resistance to stereotypes via her self-presentation shared through a public platform such as her social media profile. This study evaluates the patterns of self-presentation utilized by professional sport wives on their social media to further explore the function of gender roles in sport, the two-person career, and the professional sport marriage and family. Employing content analysis methodology, this research evaluates the public Instagram profiles of NBA wives, identifying the common frames the individuals use to manage their public presentations. The study found that 93 of 479 active NBA players at the time of the study had a wife. The study found that close to half (n=43) of the NBA wives were inaccessible on Instagram by way of no profile or a private profile. The remaining 50 NBA wives had a public Instagram profile, 13 of whom had a verified profile, including 10 wives that have their own public career a part from their husband. Utilizing 100 posts from the 13 wives with a verified profile and a randomly selected 13 of the remaining wives with public profiles, 6,285 units of analysis were retrieved and coded for the study's purpose. Using Goffman's (1959) theory of self-presentation and impression management, several unique patterns of self-presentation emerged. For instance, an analysis of the study's findings revealed four types of careers and/or work roles that dictate an NBA wife's own level of public audience she would have on social media. The four groups include NBA wives who have their own public career, NBA wives who have a verified profile but no public career, NBA wives who manage a blog, and NBA wives who have a public profile but do not have a public career, verified profile, or manage a blog (identified as "traditional" wives throughout the study). It was found that the most common social media self-presentations for all NBA wives were combination roles (15.30%, the most common being the role as a wife and her role as a mother), her role as a parent (14.43%), and her relationship with extended friends and family (11.09%). When compared to the wives who did not have a public career, the NBA wives who had their own public careers had statistically significant (c2 = 328.30, p = .00) higher rates than the rest of the wife categories of self-presentation in their roles as a parent (19.3%) and in their own career ambitions (15.4%). Wives with verified profile but no public career had statistically significant (c2 = 328.20, p = .00) higher rates of self-presentation engagement pertaining to the categories of the NBA wife's role as a parent (20.40%), philanthropy and encouraging posts (13.30%), and celebrating a holiday (7.30%). However, this same group had much lower statistically significant rates in presentations in their own career ambitions (2.70%) and within selfies (6.2%). Blogging NBA wives, however, were found to have statistically significant (c2 = 501.46, p = .00) more self-presentations of selfies (26.70%) and her career ambitions (13.80%) and low rates of presentations that indicated her relationships with her husband (3.10%), children (3.0%), or extended family (5.3%). In contrast traditional wives have statistically significant (c2 = 540.97, p = .00) higher rates of presentations that include her role as a wife (10.70%), as a parent (10.70%), in her work for the two-person sport career (7.00%) and with her extended family (16.20%) but have drastically less presentation rates within her own career (1.00%). The findings also showed that the NBA wives in the study only included their husbands in their social media content 15% of the time, while wives as bloggers had a statistically significant lower inclusion rate and the traditional wives had a statistically significant higher inclusion rate. In 11% of the data, the NBA wives tagged their husband's Instagram profile in their data, with wives with a public career and traditional wives having the highest levels of tag rates, and the blogging wives having the least. The study also identified ways in which NBA wives have - through various social media self-presentation strategies (e.g., profile status changes) and management techniques - negotiated against common sport wife stereotypes. Through its focus on NBA wives, the study also showed the utilization of social media to identify public figures and their families as power couples and/or build a family brand.

Download or read book The Interaction Order written by Norman K. Denzin and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together leading scholars in the area of symbolic interactionism to offer a broad discussion of issues including identity, dialogue and legitimacy.

Download or read book Sport in a Changing World written by Howard Nixon II and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the dynamic interplay of a powerful "golden triangle" of sports, media, and business interests with social, cultural, economic, and political forces shapes sport in a changing world. This edition is a condensed and updated version of the first edition, with an emphasis on current social issues in sport. It also has more global content. The golden triangle concept is more developed and applied more extensively. Other key themes of the first edition—power, status, and inequality—are also more developed. New "Stop and Think Questions" have been added to challenge students to think about the meaning of what they have read. The book is now divided into five sections. The new sections highlight sociology and the sociology of sport; inequality and diversity; globalization and social deviance; major social contexts of sport, including the high school, college, and professional levels; and power, political economy, and global sports.