Includes bibliographical references.

The difference within : diversity as a key conceptual framework / Chris Hallinan and Steven Jackson -- A game of two halves : understanding wport-based social inclusion / Tim Crabbe -- African footballers in Europe / Bente Ovedie Skogvang -- Religion and athletic bodies : western representations of Islamic veils and Muslim athletes / Brendon Tagg -- Equality issues within partially sighted football in England / Jessica Macbeth -- The sum of all fears : reconciling sport and sexuality / Roger LeBlanc -- Japanese educational sport and the reproduction of identity / Brent McDonald and Hiroshi Komuku -- An open letter from rugby boys in no-voice-land : reflections on rugby and race by South Africa's 2007 schoolboy players / Cora Burnett -- Shalosh, Shtayim, Echad, Maccabi : Jewish junior girls basketball / Michael Burke and Chris Hallinan -- Pacific (White) multiculturalism : rugby, Pacific peoples, and the egalitarian myth in New Zealand / Andrew Grainger -- Games of self-respect : a colony at the Olympics / Boria Majumdar and Nalin Metha -- Exercise prescription and the clinical governance of Social and ethnic bodies / Lone Friis Thing -- Cross-cultural dimensions of sporting goods consumption / Fabien Ohl and Marijke Taks.