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Reading sport : critical essays on power and representation

Title
  1. Reading sport : critical essays on power and representation / Susan Birrell and Mary G. McDonald.
Published by
  1. Boston : Northeastern University Press, ©2000.

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Additional authors
  1. Birrell, Susan.
  2. McDonald, Mary G.
Description
  1. 326 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Sports > Social aspects > United States
  2. Sports > Anthropological aspects > United States
  3. Sports > United States > Psychological aspects
  4. Sports > Anthropological aspects
  5. Sports > Psychological aspects
  6. Sports > Social aspects
  7. Sportanthropologie
  8. Sportpsychologie
  9. Sportsoziologie
  10. Idrott > sociala aspekter
  11. Idrott och samhälle
  12. United States
  13. USA
Contents
  1. Reading sport, articulating power lines: an introduction / Susan Birrell and Mary G. McDonald -- Hegemonic masculinity on the mound: media representations of Nolan Ryan and American sports culture / Nick Trujillo -- "Hertz, don't it?": becoming colorless and staying Black in the crossover of O.J. Simpson / Leola Johnson and David Roediger -- "As bad as he says he is?": interrogating Dennis Rodman's subversive potential / Mélisse LaFrance and Geneviève Rail -- When a looker is really a bitch: Lisa Olson, sport, and the heterosexual matrix / Lisa Disch and Mary Jo Kane -- Reading Nancy Lopez: decoding representations of race, class, and sexuality / Katherine M. Jamieson -- Excavating Michael Jordan's blackness / David L. Andrews -- "A radiant smile from the lovely lady": overdetermined femininity in "ladies" figure skating / Abigail M. Feder-Kane -- Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, and the bodily figuration of social class / Sam Stoloff -- "Disciplining the body": HIV-positive male athletes, media surveillance, and the policing of sexuality / Shari Lee Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs -- Double fault: Renee Richards and the construction and naturalization of difference / Susan Birrell and Cheryl L. Cole.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.