Women, sport, and culture / Susan Birrell, Cheryl L. Cole, editors.

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Book
Language
English
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Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, ©1994.
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viii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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            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.
            Bibliographic references
            Includes bibliographical references and index.
            Contents
            • Resisting the canon : feminist cultural studies, sport, and technologies of the body / Cheryl L. Cole
            • Women in sport in ideology / Paul Willis
            • Sport and the maintenance of masculine hegemony / Lois Bryson
            • Sports and male domination : the female athlete as contested ideological terrain / Michael A. Messner
            • African-American women and competitive sport, 1920-1960 / Cindy Himes Gissendanner
            • Politics, public policy, and Title IX : some limitations of liberal feminism / Mary A. Boutilier, Lucinda F. SanGiovanni
            • The status of women in intercollegiate athletics / R. Vivian Acosta, Linda Jean Carpenter
            • Gender and the coaching profession / Annelies Knoppers
            • Unequal exchange and exploitation in college sport : the case of the female athlete / Elaine Blinde
            • A postmodern paradox? : cheerleaders at women's sporting events / Laurel Davis
            • Sport as a male preserve : notes on the social sources of masculine identity and its transformations / Eric Dunning.
            • Toward a feminist alternative to sport as a male preserve / Nancy Theberge
            • Subcultural subversions : comparing discourses on sexuality in men's and women's rugby songs / Elizabeth E. Wheatley
            • Challenging the hegemony : New Zealand women's opposition to rugby and the reproduction of a capitalist patriarchy / Shona M. Thompson
            • Is a diamond forever? : feminist transformations of sport / Susan Birrell, Diana M. Richter
            • Gender stereotyping in televised sports / Margaret Carlisle Duncan [and others]
            • Active women, media representations, and ideology / Margaret MacNeill
            • Work routines in newspaper sports departments and the coverage of women's sports / Nancy Theberge, Alan Cronk
            • Visible difference and flex appeal : the body, sex, sexuality, and race in the Pumping iron films / Christine Anne Holmlund
            • Personal best : women in love / Linda Williams.
            • Crushes, competition, and closets : the emergence of homophobia in women's physical education / Susan Cahn
            • Feminist bodybuilding / Anne Balsamo
            • The embodiment of gender : discipline, domination, and empowerment / David Whitson
            • Double fault : Renee Richards and the construction and naturalization of difference / Susan Birrell, Cheryl L. Cole.
            ISBN
            • 087322650X
            • 9780873226509
            LCCN
            93038013
            OCLC
            29031505
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