Nightingale 0 #1 March 25, 2008 I was trying to find the lyrics to some of the Crack Choir songs. What I really found was this: English Title: The "crack choir" and the "cock chorus": the intersection of gender and sexuality in skydiving texts. Personal Authors: Laurendeau, J. Author Affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada. Editors: No editors Document Title: Sociology of Sport Journal, 2004 (Vol. 21) (No. 4) 397-417 Abstract: This article undertakes a qualitative exploration of women's and men's songs in the skydiving community in order to explore the intersection of gender and sexuality in this context. It draws on ethnographic methods, including 6 months of participant observation at various western Canadian locations, as well as 37 in-depth interviews with current participants in the sport. Analyses reveal that men's songs constrain the transformative potential of women in skydiving by trivializing, marginalizing, and sexualizing them. Further, they reinforce male hegemony in skydiving through the construction of a hyperheterosexual masculinity. Meanwhile, women's songs resist male hegemony in the sport, laying claim to discursive and physical space. One central strategy in this resistance is the construction of a strong heterosexual femininity, thereby asserting a sexual subjectivity neither defined nor controlled by men. This resistance, however, shores up a particular version of heterosexual femininity that contributes to women's trivialization and sexualization in this setting. http://www.cababstractsplus.org/google/abstract.asp?AcNo=20053021173 _________ Another website offers the whole article, but charges around £20 to get it... I'm curious, but not £20 curious. http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=161765623&ETOC=RN&from=searchengine Edit: Found this one too... Laurendeau, J. E. and Gibbs-Van Brunschot, E. (2003, Aug) "“Just like the boys”? Gender Negotiation in the Skydiving Community" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA Online <.PDF> Retrieved 2008-02-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p107359_index.html Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This study problematizes gender construction in the context of ‘risk sport’. Specifically, the paper examines the ways in which women and men negotiate femininities and masculinities in and through their participation in skydiving. Despite a rhetoric of gender equality amongst participants, there are important ways in which dominant understandings of gender differences are reproduced in this social setting. Men’s participation is discussed in language that suggests control, assertiveness, and active participation. Women’s participation, conversely, is framed in terms that evoke notions of passivity. Participants also draw on a “gender logic” (Coakley 1998, 233) that exaggerates men’s physical superiority over women and frames it as natural and common sense. Collectively, these discourses naturalize differences between men and women, and contribute to the perpetuation of existing gender hierarchies. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #2 March 25, 2008 Quote including 6 months of participant observation at various western Canadian locations, So some PhD student basically had to come up with a justification for being away from the library for half the year... "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #3 March 25, 2008 Mr Laurendeau has written a bit about his "research" lol Policing the Edge: Risk and Social Control in Skydiving Authors: Jason Laurendeau a; E. G. Van Brunschot a Published in: Deviant Behavior, Volume 27, Issue 2 March 2006 , pages 173 - 201 "Women Could Be Every Bit As Good As Guys" - Reproductive and resistant agency in two "Action" sports Author(s): Laurendeau J, Sharara N Source: JOURNAL OF SPORT & SOCIAL ISSUES Volume: 32 Issue: 1 Pages: 24-47 Published: FEB 2008 "He didn't go in doing a skydive": Sustaining the illusion of control in an edgework activity Author(s): Laurendeau J Source: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Volume: 49 Issue: 4 Pages: 583-605 Published: WIN 2006 Times Cited: 1 I have the full text version of those if you guys are curious... Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightingale 0 #4 March 25, 2008 Sure. I'd give it a read. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shell666 0 #5 March 25, 2008 If you want the lyrics, I'll send them to you. They're on my computer at work and I'm off until Wednesday. I'll send them to you then. One has to ask, WHY you would want those lyrics?? They're quite dirty. And I supplied them to Mr. Laurendeau for his paper too. And was interviewed for his other paper too. 'Shell Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightingale 0 #6 March 25, 2008 Because I have a few new ones in my head, and I didn't want to pick a tune that had already been used. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shell666 0 #7 March 25, 2008 Quote Because I have a few new ones in my head, and I didn't want to pick a tune that had already been used. Cool! I'll send them to you when I get back to work. 'Shell Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lauraliscious 0 #8 March 25, 2008 Quote And I supplied them to Mr. Laurendeau for his paper too. And was interviewed for his other paper too. So is Mr. Laurendeau a jumper?? Or just a researcher? Sounds interesting, at the least. Bolas Enemiga Rodriguez, PMS #369, OrFun #25, Team Dirty Sanchez #116, Pelt Head #29, Muff #4091 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
howardwhite 6 #9 March 25, 2008 I have one (cover page attached) as a ~8mb PDF. Too big to post; pm me if you want it via mail. HW Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shell666 0 #10 March 25, 2008 Quote Quote And I supplied them to Mr. Laurendeau for his paper too. And was interviewed for his other paper too. So is Mr. Laurendeau a jumper?? Or just a researcher? Sounds interesting, at the least. Bolas He's a jumper.'Shell Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BerryBoy 0 #11 March 25, 2008 Perhaps both... I would be planning a jump weekend right now if it weren't for the fact that I had to write a slew of papers this weekend. Man oh man, if I could find a way to get away with writing research on skydiving for my post-graduate modules! Information Systems is the subject area...ideas are welcomed, if subject area exists Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #12 March 25, 2008 I haven't seen or heard from Jason in at least ten years. I taught him to jump about fifteen years ago and now he's gone and quit jumping and done grad work in sociology. Oh the shame. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bolas 5 #13 March 25, 2008 Quote Perhaps both... I would be planning a jump weekend right now if it weren't for the fact that I had to write a slew of papers this weekend. Man oh man, if I could find a way to get away with writing research on skydiving for my post-graduate modules! Information Systems is the subject area...ideas are welcomed, if subject area exists Managing and automating data acquisition, maintenance, and analysis for general aviation sports businesses? Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MajorDad 0 #14 March 25, 2008 QuoteI haven't seen or heard from Jason in at least ten years. I taught him to jump about fifteen years ago and now he's gone and quit jumping and done grad work in sociology. Oh the shame. Jason comes out of the library once in a while to skydive (or judging from the dates of the papers he has written - to do some more "research"). Last saw him at LP in 2005 or so (they tend to blur together....) Blue ones Major Dad CSPA D-579 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BerryBoy 0 #15 March 25, 2008 Quote Managing and automating data acquisition, maintenance, and analysis for general aviation sports businesses? Hmmm...there might be hope! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #16 March 25, 2008 Quote Quote including 6 months of participant observation at various western Canadian locations, So some PhD student basically had to come up with a justification for being away from the library for half the year... Better. He got his grant to pay for his skydiving, too. He came down here last year and took my BASE course--and got grant money to cover those expenses, too. He was working on getting a grant to study BASE jumping in Norway, Switzerland and Malaysia, last I heard.-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
itllclear 1 #17 March 28, 2008 How do you find time to look up stuff like this when you could be out trying to learn how to skip stones on a lake?"Harry, why did you land all the way out there? Nobody else landed out there." "Your statement answered your question." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightingale 0 #18 March 28, 2008 QuoteHow do you find time to look up stuff like this when you could be out trying to learn how to skip stones on a lake? hehe... I'm stuck sitting in court waiting for my case to be called, and I'm surfing the internet on my blackberry while waiting for the judge. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
