Practising Identities

NADIA JOANNE BRITTON Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of ManchesterMALCOLM BROWN is writing a PhD thesis in the Department of Sociology, University of GlasgowBEN CARRINGTON Lecturer in Sociology, University of BrightonEMMA CLARENCE Research Assistant, Department of Public Policy, University of Central EnglandIAN COOK Lecturer in Human Geography and Cultural Studies, University of Wales, LampeterPHILIP CRANG Lecturer in Human Geography, University College LondonLORRAINE CULLEY Principal Lecturer and Head of HealthSIMON DYSON Principal Lecturer in Health Studies, De Montfort University, LeicesterSILVIA HAM-YING Principal Lecturer in Nursing, De Montfort University, LeicesterJOSEPH MAGUIRE Reader in Sociology of Sport, Loughborough UniversityLOUISE MANSFIELD Senior Lecturer in the Sport Science Department, Canterbury Christ Church CollegePAUL SWEETMAN Lecturer in Sociology, University of DurhamSHIRLEY TATE Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Leeds Metropolitan UniversityMARK THORPE Research Associate, University College LondonSTEPHEN WHITEHEAD Lecturer in Postcompulsory Education, Keele UniversityWENDY YOUNG formerly a Research Assistant, Department of Health, De Montfort University, Leicester

• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Photographs Notes on Contributors Practising Identities: Power and Resistance; S.Roseneil & J.Seymour Cricket, Culture and Identity: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Significance of Sport within Back Communities; B.Carrington Making Your Body Your Signature: Weight-Training and Transgressive Femininities; S.Tate Marked Bodies, Oppositional Identities? Tattooing, Piercing and the Ambiguity of Resistance; P.Sweetman Active Women, Power Relations and Gendered Identities: Embodies Experiences of Aerobics ; L.Mansfield & J.Maguire Contingent Masculinities: Disruptions to 'Man'agerialist Identity; S.Whitehead Racialized Identity and the Term 'Black'; N.J.Britton Caribbean Nurses: Racisms, Resistances and Healing Narratives; L.Culley, S.Dyson, S.Ham-Ying & W.Young Orientalism and Resistance to Orientalism: Muslim Identities in Contemporary Western Europe; M.D.Brown Citizenship and Identity: The Case of Australia; E.Clarence Eating into Britishness: Multicultural Imaginaries and the Identity Politics of Food; I.Cook, P.Crang & M.Thorpe Index