Lifestyle sport, identity and the politics of difference

In this chapter, I revisit assertions that, in lifestyle sport cultures, embodied sporting identities are less tied to the reproduction of white male power than in many traditional sports – that they can, and in some contexts do, challenge dominant discourses about gender, class, race, ¹ sexuality and (able) body dominance in sport (cf. Anderson, 1999; Rinehart and Sydor, 2003; Wheaton, 2004b; Laurendeau and Sharara, 2008).