| Description |
viii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Resisting the Canon: Feminist Cultural Studies, Sport, and Technologies of the Body / Cheryl L. Cole -- Ch. 2. Women in Sport in Ideology / Paul Willis -- Ch. 3. Sport and the Maintenance of Masculine Hegemony / Lois Bryson -- Ch. 4. Sports and Male Domination: The Female Athlete as Contested Ideological Terrain / Michael A. Messner -- Ch. 5. African-American Women and Competitive Sport, 1920-1960 / Cindy Himes Gissendanner -- Ch. 6. Politics, Public Policy, and Title IX: Some Limitations of Liberal Feminism / Mary A. Boutilier and Lucinda F. SanGiovanni -- Ch. 7. The Status of Women in Intercollegiate Athletics / R. Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter -- Ch. 8. Gender and the Coaching Profession / Annelies Knoppers -- Ch. 9. Unequal Exchange and Exploitation in College Sport: The Case of the Female Athlete / Elaine Blinde -- Ch. 10. A Postmodern Paradox? Cheerleaders at Women's Sporting Events / Laurel Davis -- Ch. 11. Sport as a Male Preserve: Notes on the Social Sources of Masculine Identity and its Transformations / Eric Dunning -- Ch. 12. Toward a Feminist Alternative to Sport as a Male Preserve / Nancy Theberge -- Ch. 13. Subcultural Subversions: Comparing Discourses on Sexuality in Men's and Women's Rugby Songs / Elizabeth E. Wheatley -- Ch. 14. Challenging the Hegemony: New Zealand Women's Opposition to Rugby and the Reproduction of a Capitalist Patriarchy / Shona M. Thompson -- Ch. 15. Is a Diamond Forever? Feminist Transformations of Sport / Susan Birrell and Diana M. Richter -- Ch. 16. Gender Stereotyping in Televised Sports / Margaret Carlisle Duncan, Michael A. Messner, Linda Williams and Kerry Jensen / Edited by Wayne Wilson -- Ch. 17. Active Women, Media Representations, and Ideology / Margaret MacNeill -- Ch. 18. Work Routines in Newspaper Sports Departments and the Coverage of Women's Sports / Nancy Theberge and Alan Cronk -- Ch. 19. Visible Difference and Flex Appeal: The Body, Sex, Sexuality, and Race in the Pumping Iron Films / Christine Anne Holmlund -- Ch. 20. Personal Best: Women in Love / Linda Williams -- Ch. 21. Crushes, Competition, and Closets: The Emergence of Homophobia in Women's Physical Education / Susan Cahn -- Ch. 22. Feminist Bodybuilding / Anne Balsamo -- Ch. 23. The Embodiment of Gender: Discipline, Domination, and Empowerment / David Whitson -- Ch. 24. Double Fault: Renee Richards and the Construction and Naturalization of Difference / Susan Birrell and Cheryl L. Cole |
| Summary |
"Women, Sport, and Culture features 24 selections from various feminist positions that examine the relation between sport and gender. The articles serve as a marker of where feminist sport studies has been as a field and a guidepost for what may be the most promising theoretical directions in the future." "This comprehensive collection of articles is organized into five sections: part I introduces and provides an overview of feminist theories that have examined gender, women, and sport; part II addresses the gendered organizational order of sport and explores the practices through which women in institutionalized sport are managed; part III explores how certain practices associated with sport actively degrade women and how women have alternately appropriated and opposed what they perceive to be oppressive and unjust practices; part IV examines the role of the media in circulating and legitimizing dominant meanings of sport, women, gendered bodies, and sexuality; and part V interrogates heterosexism and homophobia in sport."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Sports Participation of Women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Sex discrimination in sports.
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Sports for women -- Social aspects.
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Sports for women -- Sociological aspects.
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| Author |
Birrell, Susan.
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Cole, Cheryl L.
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| LC no. |
93038013 |
| ISBN |
087322650X |
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