Miller, Toby,

Sportsex / Toby Miller. - viii, 180 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-173) and index.

Introduction: Sportsextro -- Bodnam: Body, Nation, Media -- Commodifying the Male Body = Problematizing Hegemonic Masculinity? -- Panic Sports and the Racialized Male Body / Courting Lesbianism / Conclusion: Booters with Hooters. Toby Miller, Jim McKay and David Rowe -- Toby Miller, Jim McKay and Randy Martin -- 1. 2. 3. 4.

"Sportsex examines the landscape of sports writ global. 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 in any other context would be considered taboo." "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."--BOOK JACKET.

1566398649 9781566398640

00049098


Sports--Anthropological aspects
Gender identity.
Sports--Social aspects.

GV706.2. / M55 2001

306.483