Format:
Online-Ressource (xxix, 217 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816636249
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0816636230
Series Statement:
Sport and culture series v. 5
Content:
Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin examine the role of empowered female athletes in American popular culture through interviews with girls and boys; readings of ad campaigns by Nike, Reebok, and others; discussions of movies like Fight Club and Girlfight; and explorations of their own sports experiences. Important, refreshing, and engrossing, Built to Win examines sport in all its complexity
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-204) and index
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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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816636235
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Built to Win : The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon
Language:
English
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