| Description |
xvi, 388 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Societies, Bodies, and Ideologies: Terms and Approaches -- 2. 'To Raise the Wolf in a Man's Heart': Sport and Men's Culture in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. 'Taming the Beast': Sport, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 4. Delivering the Male: Sport Culture, the Mass Media, and the Masculinity Market -- 5. Spectacle, Commerce, and Bodies: Three Facets of Hypergender in the Sport Nexus -- 6. 'Hit, Crunch, and Burn': Organized Violence and Men's Sport -- 7. 'Hooligans, Studs, and Queers': Three Studies in the Reproduction of Hypermasculinity -- 8. High Performance: Drugs, Politics, and Profit in Sport -- 9. Re-creating Recreation: Sport and Social Change |
| Summary |
"Sport gathers more spectators on a global basis than any other activity today, yet it is widely regarded as being outside the dominant political and social systems. Varda Burstyn challenges this view, showing not only that sport generates an elitist, masculinist account of power and social order, but that it is central to the constitution of political power in contemporary life."--BOOK JACKET. "Combining some of the best insights of feminist theory with the perspectives of history, political science, economics, psychology, sociology, and cultural criticism, this book brings a new dimension to sport as a subject for serious scholarship."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Masculinity.
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Sports -- Social aspects.
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| LC no. |
00551126 |
| ISBN |
0802028446 (bound) |
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0802077250 (paperback) |
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