CRITICAL ISSUES in SPORT and SOCIETY will feature scholarly books that help expand our understanding of the new and myriad ways in which sport is intertwined with social life in the contemporary world. Using the tools of various scholarly disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, history, media studies and others, books in this new series will investigate the growing impact of sport and sports-related activities on various aspects of social life as well as key developments and changes in the sporting world and emerging sporting practices. Series authors will produce groundbreaking research that brings empirical and applied work together with cultural critique and historical perspectives written in an engaging, accessible format.

Examples of appropriate topics include:
• examinations of new and emerging sports such as mixed martial arts or roller derby
• analyses of drug or steroid use in major sports at either the professional or amateur level
• studies of the effect of statutes such as Title IX on the structure of collegiate sports as well as the broader social impacts of such transformations
• treatments of sport as a site for reproduction or contestation of various forms of social inequality
• empirical investigations into sport's relation to health, obesity, and wellness

To submit a manuscript for consideration, please send an e-mail describing the proposed project's audience; projected final length (in words, including all notes and apparatus); relation to competing books; and special features (such as illustrations or tables). Please include a current C.V. and a book outline or table of contents. Please do not send sample chapters unless requested to do so by the editors. Send inquiries to: Peter Mickulas, social science editor, Rutgers University Press, via email: mickulas@rutgerspress.rutgers.edu

Series Editors:

Douglas Hartmann of the University of Minnesota
and Michael Messner of the University of Southern California