Sportsex / Toby Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Toby.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Anthropological aspects.

Sports.

Gender identity.

Sports--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sportsex examines the landscape of sports writ globally. And it is about the way sport allows men and women-but mostly men-to consider their looks, their vitality, and their relationship to their gender in ways that would be considered taboo in any other context. Miller pays particular attention to the way celebrity is considered around the world through a number of different athletic activities. Along the way he also offers his own personal connection to sport as both a researcher and recipient of its abuses and pleasures.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Sportsextro; 1. Bodnam: Body, Nation, Media; 2. Commodifying the Male Body = Problematizing Hegemonic Masculinity?; 3. Panic Sports and the Racialized Male Body; 4. Courting Lesbianism; Conclusion: Booters with Hooters; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-173) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-70130-4

9786612701306

1-59213-820-9

OCLC:

652654420