Women, Sport, and Culture (book)
Feminist and critical perspectives on gender and sport DESCRIPTION This is the most comprehensive collection of articles available on women, sport, and culture. The book features 24 selections from various feminist positions that examine the relation between sport and gender. The articles in Women, Sport, and Culture serve as a marker of where feminist sport studies has been as a field and a guidepost for what may be the most promising theoretical directions in the future. Part I introduces and provides an overview of feminist theories that have examined gender, women, and sport. The articles in the section discuss the complexity of the relations among sport, gender, ideology, bodies, and technology. Part II addresses the gendered organizational order of sport and explores the practices through which women in institutionalized sport are managed. The articles in Part III respond to Kenneth Sheard and Eric Dunning's idea that sport is a male preserveA<>A~a site for the production and reproduction of gendered power relations. The section explores how certain practices associated with sport actively degrade women and how women have alternately appropriated and opposed what they perceive to be oppressive and unjust practices. Part IV examines the role of the media in circulating and legitimizing dominant meanings of sport, women, gendered bodies, and sexuality. Part V looks at heterosexism and homophobia in sport. AUDIENCE Text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Reference for scholars in sociology, women's studies, and cultural studies who are interested in gender relations. CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Women, Sport, and Ideology Chapter 1. Resisting the Canon: Feminist Cultural Studies, Sport, and Technologies of the Body Cheryl L. Cole Chapter 2. Women in Sport in Ideology Paul Willis Chapter 3. Sport and the Maintenance of Masculine Hegemony Lois Bryson Chapter 4. Sport and Male Domination: The Female Athlete as Contested Ideological Terrain Michael Messner Chapter 5. African American Women and Competitive Sport, 1920-1960 Cindy Himes Part II: Gender and the Organization of Sport Chapter 6. Politics, Public Policy, and Title IX, Some Limitations of Liberal Feminism Mary A. Boutilier and Lucinda SanGiovanni Chapter 7. The Status of Women in Intercollegiate Athletics Vivian Acosta and Linda Carpenter Chapter 8. Gender and the Coaching Profession Annelis Knoppers