Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry

Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is Professor Emirita of the University of Toronto, Canada. Her previous publication include The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies (co-edited with S. Wagg); Olympic Industry Resistance; The Best Ever Olympics?; and Inside the Olympics Industry Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Beyond Binaries: An Intersectional Analysis The Limits of Liberalism: Sex, Gender and Sexualities Challenges to the Olympic Industry In the Pool, On the Ice: Contested Terrain Sex and the Games Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: H Lenskyj, H. Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, LENSKYJ HELEN JEFFERSON
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2012
• EAN: 9781137291141
• ISBN: 978-1-137-29114-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 224 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games; Palgrave Studies in the Olympi; Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games; Palgrave Studies in the Olympi
• Subjects: Guides > Sport; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; C, Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Social History, Political Science, Social & cultural history, Political Sociology, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Ethnicity, Gender studies, gender groups, Sport Sociology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sports—Sociological aspects, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Ethnicity Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, gender;politics;Sex