For Pride, Profit, and Patriarchy
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: August 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780810836853
Subjects: American football; Anthropology; Social history; Football; Sociology Of Sports; Sports & Recreation; Sports; USA; Football - General; History; Sports & Recreation / General; Social aspects; United States
Description: "This reading of America's game examines the sport's obscure European origins and traces its evolution from a game of privilege into a national institution. It details how prevailing cultural and gender-based imperatives have shaped the game's rules, strategies, and lexicon - and how the game has, in turn, informed the issues of American militarism, feminism, and regionalism. Exploding football's egalitarian stance on race and ethnicity, For Pride, Profit, and Patriarchy also considers how football's obsession with domination and victory reinforces these same values in American culture."--Jacket.