Built to win [[electronic resource] ] : the female athlete as cultural icon / / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword by Julie Foudy
| Built to win [[electronic resource] ] : the female athlete as cultural icon / / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword by Julie Foudy |
| Autore | Heywood Leslie |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina | 796/.082 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | DworkinShari L |
| Collana | Sport and culture series |
| Soggetto topico |
Sports for women - Social aspects - United States
Women athletes - United States Feminism and sports - United States Sex discrimination in sports - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8166-9181-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451729803321 |
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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
| Built to win [[electronic resource] ] : the female athlete as cultural icon / / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword by Julie Foudy |
| Autore | Heywood Leslie |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina | 796/.082 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | DworkinShari L |
| Collana | Sport and culture series |
| Soggetto topico |
Sports for women - Social aspects - United States
Women athletes - United States Feminism and sports - United States Sex discrimination in sports - United States |
| ISBN | 0-8166-9181-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784395903321 |
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| Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003 | ||
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Dedication to hunger : the anorexic aesthetic in modern culture / / Leslie Heywood
| Dedication to hunger : the anorexic aesthetic in modern culture / / Leslie Heywood |
| Autore | Heywood Leslie |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California, c1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 243 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - History and criticism
Anorexia nervosa in literature Women in literature Anorexia Nervosa - psychology Culture Medicine in Literature Women Feeding and Eating Disorders Anthropology, Cultural Sociology Persons Literature Anthropology Mental Disorders Named Groups Humanities Social Sciences Psychiatry and Psychology Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena Anorexia Nervosa Languages & Literatures Literature - General |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 0-585-04109-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Claire got her gun: tracking the anorexic horizon. Personal bodies, struggles, contexts, legends -- Historical contexts, limits, positions, anorexic philosophy: Descartes, Plato, Hegel, Freud -- Consumer culture, Nike, the relentless logic of the gym -- Philosophical anorexics: the flip side. From female disease to textual ideal, or what's modernism got to do with it. Inside every fat body there's a thin body struggling to get out: more historical contexts -- The metaphysics of the flame: Fasting Girls, Kafka's Letters to Felice, and "A Hunger Artist" -- "The Female is a chaos": male anorexia in Eliot and Pound -- He who embraces the flesh: anorexia and gender in Williams. "Should be out of it": starving the feminine in Joseph Conrad. Text over flesh: Heart of Darkness and the fat man -- Fat is primitive: anorexia as historical progress in Falk. Missing persons: the black hole of the feminine in Jean Rhys. Rhys's life: booze and black holes -- The "Problem with no name" (reprise): the constitution of female subjectivity in the black hole -- Jean Rhys, sexual harassment and the academy: manifestations of the "First Death", or "Clipping your students wings -- Beyond negation (?): Wide Sargasso Sea. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Dedication to hunger |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495879503321 |
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| Berkeley, : University of California, c1996 | ||
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