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Built to win : the female athlete as cultural icon / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword by Julie Foudy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heywood, Leslie.
- Series:
- Sport and culture series ; v. 5.
- Sport and culture series ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports for women--Social aspects--United States.
- Sports for women.
- Women athletes--United States.
- Women athletes.
- Feminism and sports--United States.
- Feminism and sports.
- Sex discrimination in sports--United States.
- Sex discrimination in sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin examine the role of empowered female athletes in American popular culture through interviews with girls and boys; readings of ad campaigns by Nike, Reebok, and others; discussions of movies like Fight Club and Girlfight; and explorations of their own sports experiences. Important, refreshing, and engrossing, Built to Win examines sport in all its complexity.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Women We Love Who Kick Butt; ONE: Powered Up or Dreaming?; TWO: Sport as the Stealth Feminism of the Third Wave; THREE: A New Look at Female Athletes and Masculinity; FOUR: Bodies, Babes, and the WNBA; FIVE: Body Panic Parity; SIX: She Will Beat You Up, and Your Papa, Too; Epilogue: It's an Image; Appendix: Focus-Group Research on Youth Attitudes about Female Athletes; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-204) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9181-9
- OCLC:
- 476095284
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