Wayne State University Wayne State University Dissertations January 2019 Turning Passion Into Profit: When Leisure Becomes Work In Modern Roller Derby Amanda Nicole Draft Wayne State University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations Part of the Organizational Behavior and Theory Commons, Sociology Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Draft, Amanda Nicole, "Turning Passion Into Profit: When Leisure Becomes Work In Modern Roller Derby" (2019). Wayne State University Dissertations. 2202. https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/2202 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@WayneState. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wayne State University Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@WayneState. TURNING PASSION INTO PROFIT: WHEN LEISURE BECOMES WORK IN MODERN ROLLER DERBY by AMANDA DRAFT DISSERTATION Submitted to the Graduate School of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 2019 SOCIOLOGY Approved By: ________________________________________ Advisor Date ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ DEDICATION For past, present, and future roller derby enthusiasts. This work is for us, about us, by us. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My deepest thanks first go to my advisor, Heather Dillaway, and the members of my dissertation committee: Krista Brumley, Sara Flory, and Heidi Gottfried. Thank you for bearing with me as I struggled to keep myself on track to complete this mountain of work and for reminding me that a dissertation does not have to be perfect, it just has to be done! Thank you for believing in my work and for pushing me to think of how my findings mattered to the world outside of derby, because sometimes I forget that there is such a world.