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Women, sport, and culture
Publisher
Human Kinetics
Publication Date
c1994
Language
English
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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 ... [et al.] 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.
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087322650
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