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A sociological portrait of a women's Canadian national hockey team. Theberge (kinesiology and sociology, U. of Waterloo) examines general questions of feminist and sports sociology as they arise from her two- year research period with the team. Among the more interesting topics raised are the perception of physicality and aggressiveness (especially as related to the elimination of body checking from the game), the dilemmas of marketing women's sport, the organizational structure of the team, the interactions between players and management, and the responses of women's hockey organizations to unequal treatment (such as not being able to secure the same amount of "ice time" as equivalent men's organizations). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR