In the Game - Gay Athletes and the Cult of Masculinity

Informationen zum Autor Eric Anderson is Lecturer on Sociology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York and the author of Trailblazing: The True Story of America's First Openly Gay Track Coach . Klappentext Using interviews with openly gay and closeted team-sport athletes! Eric Anderson examines how homophobia is reproduced in sport! how gay male athletes navigate this! and how American masculinity is changing. By detailing individual experiences! Anderson shows how these athletes are emerging from their athletic closets and contesting the dominant norms of masculinity. From the locker rooms of high school sports! where the atmosphere of "don't ask! don't tell" often exists! to the unique circumstances that gay athletes possess to change their environments.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Anderson, Eric/ Andrews Anderson
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.01.2005
• EAN: 9780791465332
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6533-2
• No. of pages: 205
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Suny Sport, Culture, and Socia
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Track and field athletics, gymnastics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches