Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry
This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291158 |
| Summary: | This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class. |
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| Physical Description: | VI, 159 p. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781137291158 |