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...trenchant of the game's development as a commercial enterprise, confronting hockey's iconic stature within the Canadian cultural universe and its reinforcement of hegemonic influences within the contested terrain of class, race, and gender. This edited collection, drawing on recent scholarship in the field of sport studies and revealing the contemporary fascination with invented allegiances and the politics of cultural production, is a worthy sequel, deepening our appreciation of the ideological weight and contested meanings associated with hockey's place within broader constructions of Canadian identity. The dozen essays included here are divided into two sections: the first entitled "Hockey in Canadian Culture," the second "The Political Economy of Hockey."

In their superb introductory essay, which surveys and contextualizes writings about the game over the past half century, Whitson and Gruneau challenge the widespread assumption that hockey represents a 'natural'...

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