Reading sport
Subtitle: critical essays on power and representation
By: Susan Birrell and Mary G. McDonald
Contributors: Birrell, Susan; McDonald, Mary G
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Sports -- Social aspects -- United States; Sports -- Anthropological aspects -- United States; Sports -- United States -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Reading sport, articulating power lines: an introduction / Susan Birrell and Mary G. McDonald; title: Hegemonic masculinity on the mound: media representations of Nolan Ryan and American sports culture / Nick Trujillo; title: "Hertz, don't it?": becoming colorless and staying Black in the crossover of O.J. Simpson / Leola Johnson and David Roediger; title: "As bad as he says he is?": interrogating Dennis Rodman's subversive potential / Mélisse LaFrance and Geneviève Rail; title: When a looker is really a bitch: Lisa Olson, sport, and the heterosexual matrix / Lisa Disch and Mary Jo Kane; title: Reading Nancy Lopez: decoding representations of race, class, and sexuality / Katherine M. Jamieson; title: Excavating Michael Jordan's blackness / David L. Andrews; title: "A radiant smile from the lovely lady": overdetermined femininity in "ladies" figure skating / Abigail M. Feder-Kane; title: Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, and the bodily figuration of social class / Sam Stoloff; title: "Disciplining the body": HIV-positive male athletes, media surveillance, and the policing of sexuality / Shari Lee Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs; title: Double fault: Renee Richards and the construction and naturalization of difference / Susan Birrell and Cheryl L. Cole