Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry

H. Lenskyj (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

159 Seiten

2013 | 1st ed. 2013
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-349-45076-3 (ISBN)

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This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is Professor Emirita of the University of Toronto, Canada. Her previous publication include The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies (co-edited with S. Wagg); Olympic Industry Resistance; The Best Ever Olympics?; and Inside the Olympics Industry

Introduction Beyond Binaries: An Intersectional Analysis The Limits of Liberalism: Sex, Gender and Sexualities Challenges to the Olympic Industry In the Pool, On the Ice: Contested Terrain Sex and the Games Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Zusatzinfo	VI, 159 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-349-45076-6 / 1349450766
ISBN-13	978-1-349-45076-3 / 9781349450763
Zustand	Neuware