Sportista
Subtitle: female fandom in the United States
By: Andrei S. Markovits, Emily K. Albertson
Contributors: Albertson, Emily K., 1989-
Series: Politics, history and social change
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Penn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781439909638; 9781439909645; 9781439909652
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Social life and customs; SPORTS & RECREATION / General; Women sports spectators; SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports; Sports; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies; Gender identity; Women
Description: The typical female sports fan remains very different from her male counterparts. In their insightful and engaging book, Sportista, Andrei S. Markovits and Emily Albertson examine the significant ways many women have become fully conversant with sports -- acquiring a knowledge of and passion for them as a way of forging identities that until recently were quite alien to women. Sportista chronicles the relationship that women have developed with sports in the wake of the second wave of feminism of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The changes women athletes have achieved have been nothing short of revolutionary. But, as Markovits and Albertson argue, women's identities as sports fans, though also changed in recent decades, remain notably different from men's. Sportista highlights the impediments to these changes that women have faced and the reality that, even as bona fide fans, they "speak" sports differently from, and remain largely unaccepted by, men.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.