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Critical perspectives on gender and sport / edited by Curtis Fogel.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Fogel, Curtis, 1983- editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sports--Sex differences.
Sports.
Masculinity in sports.
Femininity in sports.
Sex discrimination in sports.
Place of Publication:
Common Ground Research Networks
Contents:
Gender relations in sport : a history of controversy, progress, and resistance / Curtis Fogel
Derby dames and gender games : empowerment and critical gender performance in the derby girl revolution / Lindy Hern
Examining women's participation in football : narratives of complicity and contest / Kate Themen
Bodies in play : physicality and gender in college women's ultimate Frisbee / Joanna Neville
Women's roller derby as a unique gendered sports context / Maddie Breeze
Motivations, limitations, and guilt : women who marathon / Jenny Lendrum
Has she got "sex appeal"? : critical feminism and the Australian sports media / Chelsea Litchfield and Steve Redhead
You play ball like a g-g-g-i-r-r-l-l! : student sttitudes about gender constructions in sport / Carolyn Fortuna
Million dollar baby : cinematic sport at the expense of women? / Patricia Di Risio
Feminising the "coming out" story of Casey Dellacqua : ambivalence, acceptance, and silence in the Australian sports media / Chelsea Litchfield and Jaquelyn Osborne
Transforming hegemonic masculinities in Papua New Guinea : rugby league as a vehicle for the prevention of gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS / Rochelle Stewart-Withers and Adam S. Everill
"Get up, and shut up, you play like Tarzan and moan like Jane" : Rugby Union men and their suppression of body anxiety / Natalie Darko
The representation of masculinity and blame in discussions of domestic violence in the NFL / Jeremy Schnieder and Jessica Tinklenberg
Accepting pain and injury as a career "norm" within the context of a masculinised Australian football subculture / Deborah Agnew and Murray J.N. Drummond
The impact of gender role conflict on the quality of life in female athletes / Rachel Daltry
Women in hegemonic environments : leading against the ods / Cecilia Ann Brantley
Rwandan girls? : perspectives on their lived experiences of physical activity and sport in secondary schools : increasing participation by respecting rather than challenging gender norms / Lysanne Rivard
Policing femininity : intersex discrimination in international athletics / Curtis Fogel
Being older, female and athletic : personal and cultural notions of resistance and conformity / Rylee A. Dionigi.
Notes:
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1-61229-996-2

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