The Olympic Games : a critical approach [[electronic resource]/] / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
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| Autore: |
Jefferson Lenskyj Helen
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| Titolo: |
The Olympic Games : a critical approach [[electronic resource]/] / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
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| Pubblicazione: | Bingley, United Kingdom : , : Emerald Publishing Limited, , 2020 |
| ©2020 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages.) |
| Disciplina: | 796.48 |
| Soggetto topico: | Olympics |
| Olympics - Social aspects | |
| Olympics - Economic aspects | |
| Olympics - Philosophy | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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'. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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.-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Olympic Games |
| ISBN: | 1-83867-775-5 |
| 9781838677756 (electronic book) | |
| 1-83867-773-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910794158603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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