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



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Autore: Heywood Leslie Visualizza persona
Titolo: Built to win [[electronic resource] ] : the female athlete as cultural icon / / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword by Julie Foudy Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
Disciplina: 796/.082
Soggetto topico: Sports for women - Social aspects - United States
Women athletes - United States
Feminism and sports - United States
Sex discrimination in sports - United States
Altri autori: DworkinShari L  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Built to win  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-9181-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784395903321
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Serie: Sport and culture series ; ; v. 5.