Gambling and Gender: Men and Women at Play

by Sandra K. Halvorson, Jason Grant McKahan, Michael H. Eaves, et al.

There are two distinct strands in the literature on gambling: one that focuses on how to play and win the various games of chance and one that focuses on gambling compulsion and addiction. Gambling and Gender forges a new direction, studying gambling as more communication than compulsion, more recreation than deviance, more sociology than psychology. Within that framework it seeks to explore several aspects of gender: How do the gambling behaviors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433105225
• ISBN13: 9781433105227
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"