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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820860503321

Autore

Heywood Leslie

Titolo

Built to win : the female athlete as cultural icon / / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword by Julie Foudy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8166-9181-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Sport and culture series ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

DworkinShari L

Disciplina

796/.082

Soggetti

Sports for women - Social aspects - United States

Women athletes - United States

Feminism and sports - United States

Sex discrimination in sports - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-204) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Women We Love Who Kick Butt; ONE: Powered Up or Dreaming?; TWO: Sport as the Stealth Feminism of the Third Wave; THREE: A New Look at Female Athletes and Masculinity; FOUR: Bodies, Babes, and the WNBA; FIVE: Body Panic Parity; SIX: She Will Beat You Up, and Your Papa, Too; Epilogue: It's an Image; Appendix: Focus-Group Research on Youth Attitudes about Female Athletes; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin examine the role of empowered female athletes in American popular culture through interviews with girls and boys; readings of ad campaigns by Nike, Reebok, and others; discussions of movies like Fight Club and Girlfight; and explorations of their own sports experiences. Important, refreshing, and engrossing, Built to Win examines sport in all its complexity.