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Autore |
Markovits Andrei S <1948-> |
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Titolo |
Sportista : Female Fandom in the United States / / Andrei S. Markovits ; Emily K. Albertson |
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Philadelphia, Penn. : , : Temple Univ. Press, , 2012 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021 |
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©2012 |
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ISBN |
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9781439909652 |
1439909652 |
9781439909638 |
1439909636 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269 p.) |
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Collana |
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Politics, history and social change |
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SOC028000SPO066000SPO000000 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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