03096nam 2200553I 450 991079415860332120221011140903.01-83867-775-59781838677756 (electronic book)1-83867-773-9(CKB)4100000010946353(MiAaPQ)EBC6158240(Au-PeEL)EBL6158240(OCoLC)1150154498(UtOrBLW)9781838677756(EXLCZ)99410000001094635320200416d2020 uy 0engurun|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Olympic Games a critical approach[electronic resource]/Helen Jefferson LenskyjBingley, United Kingdom :Emerald Publishing Limited,2020.©20201 online resource (xiii, 250 pages.)Society Now.Includes index.1-83867-776-3 Includes bibliographical references.Chapter 1: Introduction and background -- Chapter 2: Olympic resistance -- Chapter 3: 'Sport and politics don't mix' -- Chapter 4: Olympic industry impacts -- Chapter 5: Reform: 'to restore reputation' -- Chapter 6: Athletes, politics, and protest -- Chapter 7: 'Educating youth through sport' -- Chapter 8: Athletes' rights, athletes' lives -- Chapter 9: Gender policies: challenges and responses -- Chapter 10: The Olympics: 'not a welfare program but a business venture'.Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympics command public attention, while Olympic mythology obscures their underlying function as a profit-making business. Unlike terms such as 'Olympic movement' and 'Olympic family', the concept of 'Olympic industry' focuses on sport as an economic and political enterprise, with its beneficiaries including sponsors, media rights holders, developers, and politicians. Negative impacts on host cities disproportionately threaten the lives and well-being of disadvantaged minorities. Citizens' Olympic resistance campaigns address a range of human rights abuses, while recent athlete activism also focuses on the doping problem and the sexual abuse of girls and women. Female athletes with 'differences of sexual development' face discriminatory gender policies that disqualify them from women's events. All of these issues are analysed through a feminist, anti-racist lens.--Provided by publisher.SocietyNow.OlympicsOlympicsSocial aspectsOlympicsEconomic aspectsOlympicsPhilosophyOlympics.OlympicsSocial aspects.OlympicsEconomic aspects.OlympicsPhilosophy.796.48Jefferson Lenskyj Helen1524031UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910794158603321The Olympic Games3764476UNINA