Gender politics and the Olympic industry / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lenskyj, Helen.

Contributor:

Palgrave Connect (Online service)

Series:

Palgrave pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Olympic Committee.

Discrimination in sports.

Sex discrimination in sports.

Olympics--Social aspects.

Olympics.

Physical Description:

1 online text (160 pages)

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan : [distributor] Macmillan(US), 2012.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

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. Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry identifies and analyses the historical and contemporary connections between the Olympic industry and gender, taking into account the variables of social class, race/ethnicity and sexuality. For more than 100 years, the Olympic industry has controlled global sport and shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit- and image-making ends. The potential for exploitation and cooptation of women and disadvantaged minorities is great; the benefits few by comparison. The Olympics have a long and disturbing history of marginalizing women, Black people and people of colour, athletes from developing countries, and sexual minorities. Successful alternatives organized by these groups demonstrate that other ways of doing sport and doing gender are both possible and preferable.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Part of the Palgrave Pivot collection, available through Palgrave Connect.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9781137291158

113729115X

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