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Record Nr.

UNINA9911046585203321

Autore

Markovits Andrei S <1948->

Titolo

Sportista : Female Fandom in the United States / / Andrei S. Markovits ; Emily K. Albertson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Penn. : , : Temple Univ. Press, , 2012

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©2012

ISBN

9781439909652

1439909652

9781439909638

1439909636

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Politics, history and social change

Classificazione

SOC028000SPO066000SPO000000

Altri autori (Persone)

AlbertsonEmily K

Disciplina

796.082

Soggetti

Sportfan

Kulturelle Identität

Geschlechterrolle

Frau

Women sports spectators

Women - Social life and customs

Sports - Sociological aspects

Gender identity

SPORTS & RECREATION - General

SPORTS & RECREATION - Sociology of Sports

SOCIAL SCIENCE - Women's Studies

Women sports spectators - United States

USA

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Erscheint: August 2012.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Youth The Origins of Gender Difference in Sport; 2. Women in Men's Worlds Process of Exclusion and Suppression of Females in Male-Dominated



Realms Other Than Sport; 3. Women as Sports Producers Progress and Problems; 4. Fandom and the Typical Female Sports Fan; 5. Sportista I: Professional Women in the Contested Space of Sports Media Issues of Entry and Acceptance; 6. Sportista II: Following as a Hobby, the A-Typical Female Sports Fan Superfans in Their Own Right, with Their Own Voice, and Speaking Their Own Language; Conclusion

Appendix: Lists of IntervieweesIndex

Sommario/riassunto

The typical female sports fan remains very different from her male counterparts. In their insightful and engaging book, Sportista, Andrei S. Markovits and Emily Albertson examine the significant ways many women have become fully conversant with sports-acquiring a knowledge of and passion for them as a way of forging identities that until recently were quite alien to women.  Sportista chronicles the relationship that women have developed with sports in the wake of the second wave of feminism of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The changes women athletes have achieve