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Reading sport : critical essays on power and representation

Title: Reading sport : critical essays on power and representation / Susan Birrell and Mary G. McDonald.
Publication: Boston : Northeastern University Press, ©2000.

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326 pages; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Reading sport, articulating power lines: an introduction / Susan Birrell and Mary G. McDonald -- Hegemonic masculinity on the mound: media representations of Nolan Ryan and American sports culture / Nick Trujillo -- "Hertz, don't it?": becoming colorless and staying Black in the crossover of O.J. Simpson / Leola Johnson and David Roediger -- "As bad as he says he is?": interrogating Dennis Rodman's subversive potential / Mélisse LaFrance and Geneviève Rail -- When a looker is really a bitch: Lisa Olson, sport, and the heterosexual matrix / Lisa Disch and Mary Jo Kane -- Reading Nancy Lopez: decoding representations of race, class, and sexuality / Katherine M. Jamieson -- Excavating Michael Jordan's blackness / David L. Andrews -- "A radiant smile from the lovely lady": overdetermined femininity in "ladies" figure skating / Abigail M. Feder-Kane -- Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, and the bodily figuration of social class / Sam Stoloff -- "Disciplining the body": HIV-positive male athletes, media surveillance, and the policing of sexuality / Shari Lee Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs -- Double fault: Renee Richards and the construction and naturalization of difference / Susan Birrell and Cheryl L. Cole.

ISBN

1555534309
9781555534301
1555534295
9781555534295

LCCN

99088217

OCLC

ocm43036842
43036842
SCSB-14006674

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Princeton University Library