Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-10-30
Mått140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt362 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Antal sidor159
Upplaga2013
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137291141

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"Lenskyj continues her assault on the hegemony of the Olympic movement, which she refers to as the Olympic industry... The arguments are presented with great literary finesse, and may leave the reader wondering if there is any redeeming value in the Olympic movement"- Choice Review"Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry brings a much-needed critique of global gendered power relations into a dynamic conversation in feminist sport studies ... [a] timely and highly relevant book" - International Review for the Sociology of Sport