Sportsex [[electronic resource] /] / Toby Miller
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| Autore: |
Miller Toby
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| Titolo: |
Sportsex [[electronic resource] /] / Toby Miller
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/83 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sports - Anthropological aspects |
| Gender identity | |
| Sports - Social aspects | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-173) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Sportsextro; 1. Bodnam: Body, Nation, Media; 2. Commodifying the Male Body = Problematizing Hegemonic Masculinity?; 3. Panic Sports and the Racialized Male Body; 4. Courting Lesbianism; Conclusion: Booters with Hooters; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Sportsex examines the landscape of sports writ globally. And it is about the way sport allows men and women-but mostly men-to consider their looks, their vitality, and their relationship to their gender in ways that would be considered taboo in any other context.Miller pays particular attention to the way celebrity is considered around the world through a number of different athletic activities. Along the way he also offers his own personal connection to sport as both a researcher and recipient of its abuses and pleasures.In a world where everything is considered in its relationship to globali |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sportsex |
| ISBN: | 1-282-70130-4 |
| 9786612701306 | |
| 1-59213-820-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459556403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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