Personal Score

Sport, Culture, Identity

Ellen van Neerven

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9780702267529
• Year: 2023

From an award-winning First Nations author, a ground-breaking examination of sport' s troubled relationship with race, gender and sexuality. Award-winning writer Ellen van Neerven plays football from a young age, learning early on that sport can be a painful and exclusive world. The more they play, the more they realise about sport' s troubled relationship with race, gender and sexuality, questioning what it means to play sport on stolen, sovereign land, especially in the midst of multiple environmental crises. With emotional honesty and searing insight, van Neerven shines a light on sport on this continent from a queer First Nations perspective, revealing how some athletes have long challenged mainstream views and used their roles to effect change not only in their own realm, but in society more broadly. Personal Score is a ground-breaking book that confirms, once again, van Neerven' s unrivalled talent, courage and originality.

Table of contents

• Praise for Personal Score
• Author Biography
• Also by Ellen van Neerven
• Title Page
• Note for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Readers
• Contents
• Author’s Note
• Pregame
• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three
• Part Four
• Postgame
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Imprint Page