Sex Power and the Games

Zusatztext '...Woodward comprehensively illustrates how the Games as well as their connection with various social! economic and cultural apparatuses both challenge and generate sex/gender inequality. Overall! this is an important! invaluable resource for those interested in the gender dimension of sports.' - Essential! by Choice Informationen zum Autor Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department in the Sociology Department at the Open University, UK. Her interests bring together feminist theory, gender studies and sport. She is author of Boxing, Masculinity and Identity, Social Sciences: The Big Issues, Why Feminism Matters, Embodied Sporting Practices, and Sex, Power and the Games. Klappentext This book explores the social and cultural impact of the Olympic Games, examining gender and sport, the inequalities between nations and people and at what the Games offer and how they are changing, in relation to spectacles, spectatorship and culture, including the links between art and sport. Zusammenfassung This book explores the social and cultural impact of the Olympic Games! examining gender and sport! the inequalities between nations and people and at what the Games offer and how they are changing! in relation to spectacles! spectatorship and culture! including the links between art and sport. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Regulatory Frameworks: Playing by the Rules Finding the Truth: Hoping for Certainty Nations, Host Cities and Opportunities Spectacles and Spectators The Art of Sport Contradictions, Controversies and Disruptions Conclusion References

List of contents

Introduction Regulatory Frameworks: Playing by the Rules Finding the Truth: Hoping for Certainty Nations, Host Cities and Opportunities Spectacles and Spectators The Art of Sport Contradictions, Controversies and Disruptions Conclusion References

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'...Woodward comprehensively illustrates how the Games as well as their connection with various social, economic and cultural apparatuses both challenge and generate sex/gender inequality. Overall, this is an important, invaluable resource for those interested in the gender dimension of sports.' - Essential, by Choice

Product details

• Authors: Woodward, K Woodward, K. Woodward, Kath Woodward, Woodward Kath
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.06.2012
• EAN: 9780230283190
• ISBN: 978-0-230-28319-0
• No. of pages: 211
• Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences; Genders and Sexualities in the; Genders and Sexualities in the; Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; B, sports, Gender Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sociology: sport & leisure, Sport Science, Sport: general, Sociology, general, Sport Sociology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sports—Sociological aspects, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Sociology of the Body, Human body—Social aspects, Popular Science in Sports, culture;gender;Nation;Sex;Sport