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Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby Leisure Studies in a Global Era Series Editors: Karl Spracklen, Professor of Leisure Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Karen Fox, Professor of Leisure Studies, University of Alberta, Canada In this book series, we defend leisure as a meaningful, theoretical, framing concept; and critical studies of leisure as a worthwhile intellectual and pedagogical activity. This is what makes this book series distinctive: we want to enhance the discipline of leisure studies and open it up to a richer range of ideas; and, conversely, we want sociology, cultural geographies and other social sciences and humanities to open up to engaging with critical and rigorous arguments from leisure studies. Getting beyond concerns about the grand project of leisure, we will use the series to demonstrate that leisure theory is central to understanding wider debates about identity, postmodernity and globalization in contemporary societies across the world. The series combines the search for local, qualitatively rich accounts of everyday leisure with the international reach of debates in politics, leisure and social and cultural theory. In doing this, we will show that critical studies of leisure can and should continue to play a central role in understanding society. The scope will be global, striving to be truly international and truly diverse in the range of authors and topics. Titles include: Brett Lashua, Karl Spracklen, and Stephen Wagg (editors) SOUNDS AND THE CITY Popular Music, Place and Globalization Oliver Smith CONTEMPORARY ADULTHOOD AND THE NIGHT-TIME ECONOMY Karl Spracklen WHITENESS AND LEISURE Robert A. Stebbins CAREERS IN SERIOUS LEISURE From Dabbler to Devotee in Search of Fulfilment Robert A. Stebbins THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF LEISURE AND PLAY Play as Leisure, Leisure as Play Soile Veijola, Jennie Germann Molz, Olli Pyyhtinen, Emily Höckert, and Alexander Grit DISRUPTIVE TOURISM AND ITS UNTIDY GUESTS Alternative Ontologies for Future Hospitalities Udo Merkel (editor) IDENTITY DISCOURSES AND COMMUNITIES IN INTERNATIONAL EVENTS, FESTIVALS AND SPECTACLES Neil Carr (editor) DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND LEISURE Maddie Breeze SERIOUSNESS AND WOMEN’S ROLLER DERBY Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence Leisure Studies in a Global Era Series Standing Order ISBN 978–1–137–31032–3 hardback 978–1–137–31033–0 paperback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Seriousness and Women’s Roller Derby Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence Maddie Breeze University of Edinburgh, UK © Maddie Breeze 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-50483-8 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-57216-8 ISBN 978-1-137-50485-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137504852 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Breeze, Maddie. Seriousness and women’s roller derby : gender, organization and ambivalence / Maddie Breeze, University of Edinburgh, UK. pages cm 1. Roller derby. 2. Women roller skaters. 3. Sports for women— Social aspects. I. Title. GV859.6.B74 2015 796.21082—dc23 2015019832 To the Auld Reekie Roller Girls This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Tables ix Acknowledgments x List of Abbreviations and Glossary xi 1 A Sport for Women Who Don’t Like Sport? 1 What is a roller derby? Rules of the game 3 What is a roller derby? A short history 5 What is a roller derby? The case study league 9 Getting taken seriously 17 Seriousness in practice 25 2 Beginnings: How Weird It Was Back in the Day 32 In relation to sport 33 Gendered representations 41 DIY organization 48 Constructing narratives 55 3 Becomings: More Structured and More of a Sport 63 A committee structure 66 Attendance and skill in team selection 73 ‘Competitive’ and ‘non-competitive’ skaters 78 By which skaters for which skaters? 86 4 Just a Big Sexy Joke? 93 Recognition I: New identifications 99 Recognition II: Inversions, transpositions, and refusals 107 5 Making It Up 120 Made up and make-believe 122 Fantasy: Licensed transgression 127 Parody: ‘Names’ and ‘wives’ 132 Irony: Staying on the threshold 138 6 Non-/Seriousness: Playing the Game and Changing the Rules 145 Non-/serious sociology 159 Research for people who don’t like research? 161 vii viii Contents ‘It’s time to fall out of love with your crazy dream’ 164 Methods as pursuit of serious recognition 168 Non-/serious research? 171 Bibliography 175 Index 191 Tables 4.1 ‘Then’ & ‘Now’ v1 96 4.2 ‘Then’ & ‘Now’ v2 102 4.3 ‘Then’ & ‘Now’ v3 106 4.4 ‘Then’ & ‘Now’ v4 111 4.5 ‘Then’ & ‘Now’ v5 114 4.6 ‘Then’ & ‘Now’ v6 116 ix Acknowledgments Infinite thanks are due to all of the following whose insight and support have inspired me and sustained this research project. John and Kate for invaluable, and very patient, mentorship – thank you! Karen and Nick for generous, challenging discussion and ongoing encouragement – thank you! The Sociology Department at Edinburgh, especially Hugo, Liz, Lynn, and Ross, for brilliant comments on research design. Alex, Megan, TL, Julia, Naomi, Charlotte, Justin, and Eva. Office 4.16 – the best office mates. Aoife, CR, Darcy, Hannah, Hilary, Joanna, Kathleen, Ros, and Victoria; I honestly don’t know where the research, or I, would be without you. Geneva, Josalyn, Sam, Travis, and Ursula, thank you for sharing your roller derby research with me. Fembot HQ. Dalmahoose. Potato Witches. Tristan. Thank you, Geraldine for coming to see my FWSA paper presentation, and Dave for teaching me about jokes that aren’t funny. I am indebted to all participants who gave so much of their time and energy to the research, especially all interviewees and workshop participants. Bruise Leigh, Crazylegs, Crotch Lightning, Juicy Lucy, Mallory Powers, and Mo B Quick all went above and beyond in terms of late night discussions, never-ending email, draft reading, and cry- ing in the toilets – thank you. There are so many without whom the research would not have been possible, including Alma Geddon, Aly-lou Yeah, Anarchic, Anne-Thrax, Armalite Angie, Bobbie Bang-Bang, Brutally Frank, Busty Malone, Candy Savage, Cherry Fury, Ciderella, Coco, Danger Mouth, Death Biffo, Deck’her, Ella-Bella, Fight Cub, Hur- ricane Hayles, IP Freely, Jo-ggernaught, Kirds, Lily Lethal, LL Cool Gay, LuPaul, Mad Mim, Madame de Stompadour, Mags Pain, Maulibu Barbie, Meg le Maniac, Minnie Riot, Moxie, Peril Jamm, Pikey Rose, Queenie Ville, Scarface Betty, Surly Valentine, Tartan Tearaway, Velosidy, Xanadu Damage, Zena, and Zillah – but this list is not exhaustive. The research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 Award, grant number: ES/H012567/1. x Abbreviations and Glossary BGGW Bad Girl, Good Woman Productions BRSF British Roller Sports Federation DIY Do It Yourself MRDA Men’s Roller Derby Association NSO Non-Skating Official TXRD Texas Roller Derby UKRDA United Kingdom Roller Derby Association WFTDA Women’s Flat Track Derby Association League I use ‘league’ to refer to the case study and research context, the organization as a whole, and to all skaters, referees, and non-skating members of the organization Participants Refers directly to those skaters, referees, and non-skating members who took part in interviews and film-making workshops, or who are involved in the research as key informants Skaters Indicates a broader conception of people who play, or have played, roller derby with the league, and occasionally to those who skate for other leagues as indicated in the main text xi 1 A Sport for Women Who Don’t Like Sport? What do you think your research will be about now that derby’s so different to when you first started? Aladdin, December 2011 It’s early evening one Saturday, late in November 2011, and I am walking home with Aladdin after two hours of roller derby practice. We were cycling the seven-mile journey back into town, but Aladdin has a pain in her shoulder, worsened by training and by her heavy backpack full of kit, so with a few miles left to go we get off and walk, pushing our bikes through the outskirts of the city.
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