Sportsex
By: Toby Miller.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Sports -- Anthropological aspects; Gender identity; Sports -- Social aspects
Description: "Sportsex examines the landscape of sports writ global. 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 in any other context would be considered taboo.".

"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bodnam: body, nation, media; title: Commodifying the male body = Problematizing hegemonic masculinity?; title: Panic sports and the racialized male body / [with Jim McKay and David Rowe]; title: Courting lesbianism / [with Jim McKay and David Rowe]; title: Conclusion: Booters with hooters.