This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
John Hughson is based at the International Football Institute, University of Central Lancashire. He is author of Making Sporting Cultures (2009); principal author of The Uses of Sport (2005); co-editor of The Containment of Soccer in Australia (2010); co-editor of Sport in the City: Cultural Connections (2011); principal editor 'The Routledge Handbook of Football Studies' (2014 forthcoming). All published by Routledge.
Fiona Skillen is a lecturer in Sport and Events at Glasgow Caledonian University. Her research interests focus on the history of sport, in particular aspects of gender, politics, social policy and health. She is particularly interested in the influence which dominant discourses concerning gender and modernity had on women’s popular culture. Dr Skillen is the author of ‘Women, Sport and Modernity in Interwar Britain’, (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013).